chore: release v0.24.8

The "to send" rule only looked at qsl_sent, so a contact waiting to go to LoTW
— marked R, and the commonest not-gone-out-yet state in a digital log — matched
nothing and stayed uncoloured. It now covers any route still queued, and the
label says so.

app.go

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import (
 	"hamlog/internal/email"
 	"hamlog/internal/extsvc"
 	"hamlog/internal/geo"
+	"hamlog/internal/gridcache"
 	"hamlog/internal/integrations/udp"
 	"hamlog/internal/lookup"
 	"hamlog/internal/lotwusers"
@@ -233,6 +234,10 @@ const (
 	keyUltrabeamPort    = "ultrabeam.port"
 	keyUltrabeamFollow  = "ultrabeam.follow"     // "1" → re-tune to the rig frequency
 	keyUltrabeamStep    = "ultrabeam.step_khz"   // re-tune hysteresis: 25 | 50 | 100 kHz
+	keyMotorTrackMode   = "motor.track_mode"     // "always" | "step" | "band"
+	keyMotorBandFreqs   = "motor.band_freqs"     // per-band tune frequency: "40m=7100,20m=14150"
+	keyChaseNewGrids    = "cluster.chase_grids"  // "1" → persist learnt locators across restarts
+	keyRowColors        = "appearance.row_colors"
 	keyMotorType        = "ultrabeam.type"       // "ultrabeam" | "steppir" (default ultrabeam)
 	keyMotorTransport   = "ultrabeam.transport"  // "tcp" | "serial" (default tcp)
 	keyMotorCOM         = "ultrabeam.com"        // serial device name (COM3, /dev/ttyUSB0)
@@ -599,6 +604,14 @@ type App struct {
 	// or when a setting that shapes the maps flips.
 	clusterStatusIdx *clusterStatusCache
 	clusterStatusMu  sync.Mutex
+	// qsoNumbers maps a QSO id to its chronological position, oldest = 1. Built
+	// on demand from one ordered id query and dropped whenever the log changes,
+	// alongside the other derived indexes.
+	qsoNumbers map[int64]int
+	// qsoNumMax is the date of the newest contact the map has numbered, so a QSO
+	// logged now can be appended instead of forcing a rebuild.
+	qsoNumMax time.Time
+	qsoNumMu  sync.Mutex
 	// decodeGrids maps a callsign to the 4-character grid it announced in a CQ
 	// heard over the WSJT-X UDP link. It is the ONLY source of grids we have for
 	// a spot: a DX-cluster line carries the spotter's grid at best, never the
@@ -609,8 +622,23 @@ type App struct {
 	//
 	// In memory only, and bounded: it is a session-local view of who is on the
 	// air now, not a database.
-	decodeGrids   map[string]string
-	decodeGridsMu sync.RWMutex
+	//
+	// Bounded in TWO generations. The cap used to drop the whole map, which was
+	// survivable while the only source was this station's own decodes — it never
+	// reached the ceiling. It is a cliff for any larger feed: every locator in the
+	// list would vanish at once, periodically. Keeping the previous generation
+	// means a rotation costs the older half and nothing more, and it needs no
+	// insertion order, no per-entry timestamp and no bookkeeping on the write
+	// path — which "evict the oldest thousand" would all require.
+	decodeGrids    map[string]string // current generation, written to
+	decodeGridsOld map[string]string // previous generation, still readable
+	decodeGridsMu  sync.RWMutex
+	// gridStore persists the map across restarts when grid chasing is on. With
+	// it, rotation is switched OFF: rotating would drop callsigns the database
+	// still holds, and a lookup would then miss something we know. The store
+	// bounds itself by age instead, so memory follows how many distinct stations
+	// have actually been heard in two years rather than a made-up ceiling.
+	gridStore *gridcache.Store
 	// pskr is the PSK Reporter MQTT feed, up only while the opening watch is on.
 	// It is the source that makes VHF detection work at all: the cluster and RBN
 	// carry a handful of 6 m spots where PSK Reporter carries hundreds.
@@ -1373,8 +1401,11 @@ func (a *App) startup(ctx context.Context) {
 	go a.sendTelemetryHeartbeat()
 	go a.liveStatusLoop() // multi-op: heartbeat current activity to shared MySQL
 	go a.chatLoop()       // multi-op: poll the shared chat + heartbeat presence
-	// PSK Reporter, when the opening watch is on. After the operator's grid is
-	// known: without it there is no distance to measure and the feed stays down.
+	// Locator store BEFORE the feed: the feed asks whether it exists to decide
+	// which bands to subscribe to.
+	a.startGridCache()
+	// PSK Reporter. After the operator's grid is known: without it there is no
+	// distance to measure and no receiver squares to filter on, so it stays down.
 	a.startBandOpenFeed()
 	// One-time tidy-up of a field nothing used to record. Background, once.
 	a.backfillDistancesOnce()
@@ -1623,6 +1654,14 @@ func (a *App) shutdown(ctx context.Context) {
 	if a.qsoRec != nil {
 		a.qsoRec.Stop()
 	}
+	// Before the databases: Close flushes what the last minute learnt, and a
+	// restart is exactly when the grid cache is worth the most.
+	if a.gridStore != nil {
+		if err := a.gridStore.Close(); err != nil {
+			applog.Printf("gridcache: close: %v", err)
+		}
+		a.gridStore = nil
+	}
 	if a.logDb != nil && a.logDb != a.db {
 		_ = a.logDb.Close() // shared MySQL logbook (separate from the local config DB)
 	}
@@ -2680,6 +2719,9 @@ func (a *App) AddQSO(q qso.QSO) (id int64, err error) {
 		a.clusterStatusMu.Lock()
 		a.clusterStatusIdx = nil
 		a.clusterStatusMu.Unlock()
+		// Give the contact its number without rereading the log — same reason as
+		// above, a contest run must not pay a full scan per QSO.
+		a.noteQSONumbered(id, q.QSODate)
 		// Announce the log RIGHT AWAY so the grid/UI refresh at once and the entry
 		// form clears immediately — the operator is not made to wait on the DB.
 		wruntime.EventsEmit(a.ctx, "qso:logged", id)
@@ -2721,6 +2763,15 @@ func (a *App) applySolar(q *qso.QSO) {
 	if a.solar == nil {
 		return
 	}
+	// Today's space weather belongs on today's QSO. The ADIF monitor and the UDP
+	// path both feed contacts that are normally seconds old, but neither promises
+	// it: a logger re-broadcasting its backlog, or an operator typing in last
+	// month's contact by hand, would otherwise be given this morning's SFI as if
+	// it had been measured at the time. A wrong number is worse than none — it
+	// cannot be told from a real reading afterwards.
+	if !q.QSODate.IsZero() && time.Since(q.QSODate) > 24*time.Hour {
+		return
+	}
 	d := a.solar.Get()
 	if !d.OK {
 		return
@@ -4429,6 +4480,11 @@ func (a *App) invalidateAwardStats() {
 	a.clusterStatusMu.Lock()
 	a.clusterStatusIdx = nil
 	a.clusterStatusMu.Unlock()
+	// The numbering shifts whenever a contact is added or removed — and an
+	// imported ADIF inserts into the MIDDLE of the order, not at the end.
+	a.qsoNumMu.Lock()
+	a.qsoNumbers = nil
+	a.qsoNumMu.Unlock()
 	// Bulk QSO changes (import, delete, bulk edit) also land here — refresh the
 	// worked-index so alert "needed" checks stay accurate. Async: never block the
 	// mutation, and it's a single lightweight query.
@@ -4475,6 +4531,7 @@ func (a *App) awardRefMetas(defs []award.Def) map[string][]award.RefMeta {
 			metas = append(metas, award.RefMeta{
 				Code: rf.Code, Name: rf.Name, Group: rf.Group, SubGrp: rf.SubGrp,
 				DXCCList: dxccList, Pattern: rf.Pattern, Valid: rf.Valid,
+				ValidFrom: rf.ValidFrom, ValidTo: rf.ValidTo,
 			})
 		}
 		out[code] = metas
@@ -5751,7 +5808,96 @@ func (a *App) ListQSOFiltered(f qso.QueryFilter) ([]qso.QSO, error) {
 	if a.qso == nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("db not initialized")
 	}
-	return a.qso.ListFiltered(a.ctx, f)
+	list, err := a.qso.ListFiltered(a.ctx, f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	a.stampQSONumbers(list)
+	return list, nil
+}
+
+// stampQSONumbers fills each QSO's position in the log, oldest = 1.
+//
+// Stamped here rather than computed in the query because the number has to be
+// the rank in the WHOLE log: ranking inside the result would renumber every
+// contact the moment a filter is applied, and the operator would see QSO #1
+// change identity as they typed.
+func (a *App) stampQSONumbers(list []qso.QSO) {
+	idx := a.qsoNumberIndex()
+	if idx == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	for i := range list {
+		list[i].Number = idx[list[i].ID]
+	}
+}
+
+// countQSOForNumbering is Count with the nil-repo guard the numbering needs —
+// it runs before the database is up on a fresh start.
+func (a *App) countQSOForNumbering() (int64, error) {
+	if a.qso == nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("db not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.qso.Count(a.ctx)
+}
+
+// qsoNumberIndex returns id → chronological position, building it once and
+// keeping it until the log changes (invalidateAwardStats drops it).
+func (a *App) qsoNumberIndex() map[int64]int {
+	a.qsoNumMu.Lock()
+	defer a.qsoNumMu.Unlock()
+	if a.qsoNumbers != nil {
+		// Cheap consistency check rather than trusting every insert path to have
+		// remembered to invalidate. Several bulk paths — the POTA hunter import,
+		// the LoTW and QRZ "add contacts I was missing" passes — insert straight
+		// through the repo, and they add contacts with OLD dates, which lands them
+		// in the MIDDLE of the order and shifts every number after them. A stale
+		// map there is not merely incomplete, it is wrong.
+		//
+		// One indexed COUNT against a map length, versus rereading every id.
+		if n, err := a.countQSOForNumbering(); err == nil && int(n) != len(a.qsoNumbers) {
+			a.qsoNumbers = nil
+		} else {
+			return a.qsoNumbers
+		}
+	}
+	if a.qso == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	ids, newest, err := a.qso.OrderedIDs(a.ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		applog.Printf("qso numbering: %v — the column will be empty", err)
+		return nil
+	}
+	m := make(map[int64]int, len(ids))
+	for i, id := range ids {
+		m[id] = i + 1
+	}
+	a.qsoNumbers = m
+	a.qsoNumMax = newest
+	return m
+}
+
+// noteQSONumbered keeps the numbering current for a contact just logged.
+//
+// A QSO logged from the entry form is the newest there is, so it simply takes
+// the next number — a full rebuild would read every id in the log, which during
+// a contest run would cost more than the three queries the grid refresh already
+// makes. A contact entered with an OLDER date belongs in the middle of the
+// order, so there the map is dropped and rebuilt correctly rather than
+// mis-numbered.
+func (a *App) noteQSONumbered(id int64, at time.Time) {
+	a.qsoNumMu.Lock()
+	defer a.qsoNumMu.Unlock()
+	if a.qsoNumbers == nil {
+		return // nothing built yet; the lazy build will see this QSO anyway
+	}
+	if at.Before(a.qsoNumMax) {
+		a.qsoNumbers = nil
+		return
+	}
+	a.qsoNumbers[id] = len(a.qsoNumbers) + 1
+	a.qsoNumMax = at
 }
 
 // CountQSOFiltered returns how many QSOs match the filter (ignoring the row
@@ -11823,6 +11969,16 @@ func (a *App) LogUDPLoggedADIF(adifText string) (int64, error) {
 	a.refineDistrictZones(&q)          // W6 → CQ3/ITU6 for zone-split countries
 	a.applyQSLDefaults(&q)
 
+	// ── Space weather and path length ──
+	// Also "same as the manual path", and they were missed when that comment was
+	// written. A QSO auto-logged from WSJT-X went in with no SFI, no A, no K and
+	// no distance, so an operator running digital — which is most of the traffic
+	// on most stations — had those fields empty across the whole log while a
+	// hand-logged contact carried them. Both are stamped only where the record
+	// left them empty, so an ADIF that supplied its own still wins.
+	a.applySolar(&q)
+	fillDistance(&q)
+
 	// ── Dedup (serialised) ──
 	// Match by call + band + mode within a ±2-minute window: a QSO logged
 	// manually in OpsLog and re-broadcast by Log4OM over UDP often differs by
@@ -11857,6 +12013,10 @@ func (a *App) LogUDPLoggedADIF(adifText string) (int64, error) {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("insert qso: %w", err)
 	}
 	q.ID = id
+	// Same as the manual path: give the contact its number without rereading the
+	// log. This insert bypasses AddQSO entirely, which is why UDP-logged contacts
+	// came out unnumbered while hand-logged ones did not.
+	a.noteQSONumbered(id, q.QSODate)
 	a.noteLiveQSO() // multi-op: flip this operator back "online" (publishes async)
 	// Announce the log AT ONCE so the grid / ON-AIR badge / stations-on-air widget
 	// refresh immediately, then run the DB-heavy enrichment off the critical path
@@ -11915,15 +12075,7 @@ func (a *App) consumeUDPEvents() {
 			// Remember the grid before anything else: a CQ is the one message that
 			// carries it, and the station may never send another.
 			if ev.DecodeGrid != "" {
-				a.decodeGridsMu.Lock()
-				if a.decodeGrids == nil {
-					a.decodeGrids = make(map[string]string, 512)
-				}
-				if len(a.decodeGrids) > 20000 {
-					a.decodeGrids = make(map[string]string, 512) // bound a long session
-				}
-				a.decodeGrids[strings.ToUpper(ev.DecodeCall)] = ev.DecodeGrid
-				a.decodeGridsMu.Unlock()
+				a.rememberDecodeGrid(ev.DecodeCall, ev.DecodeGrid, gridcache.SourceDecode)
 			}
 			// A WSJT-X decode (heard station). Render it on the FlexRadio
 			// panadapter when the option is on; green + SNR comment, auto-expiring
@@ -12346,13 +12498,25 @@ func (a *App) ultrabeamFollowNow(freqHz int64) {
 	if ref <= 0 {
 		ref = c.LastSetKHz()
 	}
-	diff := khz - ref
-	if diff < 0 {
-		diff = -diff
-	}
-	if ref > 0 && diff < step {
-		applog.Printf("ultrabeam: followNow within deadband (%d kHz vs ref %d, step %d) — no move", khz, ref, step)
-		return // within the deadband — don't chase a tiny QSY
+	switch normMotorTrackMode(s.TrackMode) {
+	case motorTrackAlways:
+		// Every frequency change means every frequency change, including this one.
+	case motorTrackBand:
+		// The antenna is already resonant somewhere in this band — that is all the
+		// operator asked for in band mode, so a spot click inside it moves nothing.
+		if ref > 0 && bandForHz(int64(ref)*1000) == bandForHz(freqHz) {
+			applog.Printf("ultrabeam: followNow stays in band %q (antenna at %d kHz) — no move", bandForHz(freqHz), ref)
+			return
+		}
+	default:
+		diff := khz - ref
+		if diff < 0 {
+			diff = -diff
+		}
+		if ref > 0 && diff < step {
+			applog.Printf("ultrabeam: followNow within deadband (%d kHz vs ref %d, step %d) — no move", khz, ref, step)
+			return // within the deadband — don't chase a tiny QSY
+		}
 	}
 	a.noteMotorMoveCommanded()
 	if err := c.SetFrequency(khz, st.Direction); err != nil {
@@ -14634,6 +14798,17 @@ type UltrabeamSettings struct {
 	Baud      int    `json:"baud"`       // serial baud
 	Follow    bool   `json:"follow"`     // re-tune the antenna to the rig's frequency
 	StepKHz   int    `json:"step_khz"`   // re-tune only when the freq moved this far (25/50/100)
+	// When the follow loop is allowed to move the motors. The three choices the
+	// SteppIR's own controller software offers, because operators arrive with
+	// that mental model:
+	//   "always" — every frequency change. Resonance is always right, at the cost
+	//              of motors running constantly; on a SteppIR every move also
+	//              inhibits transmit while the elements travel.
+	//   "step"   — only past a threshold (StepKHz). The default, and the sane
+	//              middle: the antenna follows a QSY but ignores tuning around.
+	//   "band"   — only when the band changes. Motors move a handful of times a
+	//              day; resonance is whatever the band-entry frequency gave.
+	TrackMode string `json:"track_mode"`
 	TXInhibit bool   `json:"tx_inhibit"` // block Flex transmission while the elements are moving
 	// Bands the antenna covers — the follow filter. The follow loop only re-tunes
 	// (and only lets TX-inhibit trigger) on a band in this set; on any other band
@@ -14641,6 +14816,11 @@ type UltrabeamSettings struct {
 	// range so a single band can be dropped (e.g. 30 m without its extension) while
 	// its neighbours stay. Applies to BOTH the Ultrabeam and the SteppIR.
 	Bands []string `json:"bands"`
+	// Per-band tune frequency (kHz) — where a band button in Station Control
+	// sends the antenna. Sparse: a band with no entry uses its default, so an
+	// operator sets only the bands he cares about and an existing config needs no
+	// migration.
+	BandFreqs map[string]int `json:"band_freqs"`
 	// Legacy tunable range (MHz). Superseded by Bands; kept so an older config
 	// migrates cleanly (the range is converted to a band set on load) and so the
 	// value round-trips. Not used by the follow filter once Bands is set.
@@ -14648,16 +14828,39 @@ type UltrabeamSettings struct {
 	FreqMaxMHz int `json:"freq_max_mhz"`
 }
 
+// Tracking modes. Stored as strings rather than an int so a settings row stays
+// readable when diagnosing an antenna that moves too much or not at all.
+const (
+	motorTrackAlways = "always"
+	motorTrackStep   = "step"
+	motorTrackBand   = "band"
+)
+
+// normMotorTrackMode keeps an unknown or empty value on the threshold mode
+// instead of guessing — a config written before this option existed then
+// behaves exactly as it did.
+func normMotorTrackMode(m string) string {
+	switch strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(m)) {
+	case motorTrackAlways:
+		return motorTrackAlways
+	case motorTrackBand:
+		return motorTrackBand
+	default:
+		return motorTrackStep
+	}
+}
+
 // GetUltrabeamSettings returns the persisted motorized-antenna config, defaulting
 // to the pre-SteppIR behaviour (Ultrabeam over TCP) so an existing install is
 // unchanged.
 func (a *App) GetUltrabeamSettings() (UltrabeamSettings, error) {
-	out := UltrabeamSettings{Type: "ultrabeam", Transport: "tcp", Port: 23, Baud: 9600, StepKHz: 50}
+	out := UltrabeamSettings{Type: "ultrabeam", Transport: "tcp", Port: 23, Baud: 9600, StepKHz: 50, TrackMode: motorTrackStep}
 	if a.settings == nil {
 		return out, fmt.Errorf("db not initialized")
 	}
 	m, err := a.settings.GetMany(a.ctx, keyUltrabeamEnabled, keyUltrabeamHost, keyUltrabeamPort, keyUltrabeamFollow, keyUltrabeamStep,
-		keyMotorType, keyMotorTransport, keyMotorCOM, keyMotorBaud, keyMotorTXInhibit, keyMotorFreqMin, keyMotorFreqMax, keyMotorBands)
+		keyMotorType, keyMotorTransport, keyMotorCOM, keyMotorBaud, keyMotorTXInhibit, keyMotorFreqMin, keyMotorFreqMax, keyMotorBands,
+		keyMotorTrackMode, keyMotorBandFreqs)
 	if err != nil {
 		return out, err
 	}
@@ -14681,6 +14884,8 @@ func (a *App) GetUltrabeamSettings() (UltrabeamSettings, error) {
 	if st, _ := strconv.Atoi(m[keyUltrabeamStep]); st == 25 || st == 50 || st == 100 {
 		out.StepKHz = st
 	}
+	out.TrackMode = normMotorTrackMode(m[keyMotorTrackMode])
+	out.BandFreqs = decodeMotorBandFreqs(m[keyMotorBandFreqs])
 	out.FreqMinMHz, _ = strconv.Atoi(m[keyMotorFreqMin])
 	out.FreqMaxMHz, _ = strconv.Atoi(m[keyMotorFreqMax])
 	// Bands is the follow filter. If it was saved, use it verbatim. Otherwise this
@@ -14746,6 +14951,8 @@ func (a *App) SaveUltrabeamSettings(s UltrabeamSettings) error {
 		keyUltrabeamPort:    strconv.Itoa(s.Port),
 		keyUltrabeamFollow:  boolStr(s.Follow),
 		keyUltrabeamStep:    strconv.Itoa(s.StepKHz),
+		keyMotorTrackMode:   normMotorTrackMode(s.TrackMode),
+		keyMotorBandFreqs:   encodeMotorBandFreqs(normMotorBandFreqs(s.BandFreqs)),
 		keyMotorType:        s.Type,
 		keyMotorTransport:   s.Transport,
 		keyMotorCOM:         strings.TrimSpace(s.COM),
@@ -14831,12 +15038,91 @@ func (a *App) startUltrabeam() {
 // fitted) while keeping its neighbours — something a contiguous min/max range
 // can't express. nomMHz is a representative in-band frequency, used only to
 // migrate a legacy FreqMin/FreqMax range into a band set.
+// defKHz is where a band button tunes the antenna when the operator has not
+// chosen a frequency for that band — roughly mid-band, where a beam's pattern is
+// usable across the whole allocation. It is only a default: an operator who
+// lives in the CW segment sets his own, exactly as the SteppIR controller's own
+// "Frequency (KHz)" column does.
 var motorBands = []struct {
 	name   string
 	nomMHz int
+	defKHz int
 }{
-	{"40m", 7}, {"30m", 10}, {"20m", 14}, {"17m", 18},
-	{"15m", 21}, {"12m", 24}, {"10m", 28}, {"6m", 50},
+	{"40m", 7, 7100}, {"30m", 10, 10125}, {"20m", 14, 14150}, {"17m", 18, 18110},
+	{"15m", 21, 21150}, {"12m", 24, 24930}, {"10m", 28, 28400}, {"6m", 50, 50150},
+}
+
+// motorBandDefaultKHz is the fallback tune frequency for a band, 0 if unknown.
+func motorBandDefaultKHz(band string) int {
+	band = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band))
+	for _, b := range motorBands {
+		if b.name == band {
+			return b.defKHz
+		}
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+// normMotorBandFreqs keeps only entries that name a real motor band AND whose
+// frequency actually falls in that band.
+//
+// The check matters: this value is fed straight to the antenna as a tune
+// command. A slip of one digit — 1450 for 20 m, or kHz typed as MHz — would send
+// the elements travelling to a length that is wrong for the band the operator is
+// on, and on a SteppIR that is a long, transmit-inhibited journey to a position
+// nobody asked for. An entry that fails the check is dropped, so the band falls
+// back to its default rather than to nonsense.
+func normMotorBandFreqs(in map[string]int) map[string]int {
+	out := map[string]int{}
+	for _, b := range motorBands {
+		khz, ok := in[b.name]
+		if !ok || khz <= 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if bandForHz(int64(khz)*1000) != b.name {
+			applog.Printf("motor-antenna: ignoring %d kHz for %s — not in that band", khz, b.name)
+			continue
+		}
+		out[b.name] = khz
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// encodeMotorBandFreqs / decodeMotorBandFreqs store the map as "40m=7100,20m=14150".
+// A flat string rather than JSON so the settings row stays readable, and so a
+// value corrupted by hand degrades one band instead of the whole set.
+func encodeMotorBandFreqs(m map[string]int) string {
+	parts := []string{}
+	for _, b := range motorBands { // canonical order, not map order
+		if khz := m[b.name]; khz > 0 {
+			parts = append(parts, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%d", b.name, khz))
+		}
+	}
+	return strings.Join(parts, ",")
+}
+
+func decodeMotorBandFreqs(s string) map[string]int {
+	out := map[string]int{}
+	for _, kv := range strings.Split(s, ",") {
+		name, val, ok := strings.Cut(strings.TrimSpace(kv), "=")
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		if khz, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(val)); err == nil && khz > 0 {
+			out[strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(name))] = khz
+		}
+	}
+	return normMotorBandFreqs(out)
+}
+
+// motorTuneKHzForBand is the frequency a band button commands: the operator's
+// choice when set, the default otherwise.
+func motorTuneKHzForBand(m map[string]int, band string) int {
+	band = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band))
+	if khz := m[band]; khz > 0 {
+		return khz
+	}
+	return motorBandDefaultKHz(band)
 }
 
 // motorBandNames is the full ordered set (all bands enabled).
@@ -14985,10 +15271,21 @@ func (a *App) motorTXInhibitLoop(c motorAntenna, bands []string, stop <-chan str
 	}
 }
 
-func (a *App) ultrabeamFollowLoop(c motorAntenna, stepKHz int, bands []string, stop <-chan struct{}) {
+func (a *App) ultrabeamFollowLoop(c motorAntenna, mode string, stepKHz int, bands []string, stop <-chan struct{}) {
 	if stepKHz <= 0 {
 		stepKHz = 50
 	}
+	mode = normMotorTrackMode(mode)
+	// "Every time the frequency changes" is the threshold mode with the smallest
+	// threshold there is: the loop already re-tunes when the rig has moved at
+	// least stepKHz from the last commanded frequency, and 1 kHz makes that
+	// "moved at all". Expressing it this way keeps ONE decision path, so the
+	// deadband reference — which is the rig, not the antenna's own flaky reported
+	// frequency — cannot drift out of step between modes.
+	if mode == motorTrackAlways {
+		stepKHz = 1
+	}
+	lastCmdBand := "" // band of the last commanded move — the reference in band mode
 	ticker := time.NewTicker(1500 * time.Millisecond)
 	defer ticker.Stop()
 	lastRigKHz := 0 // only log when the followed rig frequency actually changes
@@ -15046,19 +15343,35 @@ func (a *App) ultrabeamFollowLoop(c motorAntenna, stepKHz int, bands []string, s
 					ref = c.LastSetKHz()
 				}
 			}
-			diff := rigKHz - ref
-			if diff < 0 {
-				diff = -diff
-			}
-			if ref > 0 && diff < stepKHz {
-				continue // within the deadband — leave the motors alone
+			// Band mode ignores the threshold entirely: the antenna is re-tuned once
+			// on entering a band and then left alone however far the rig roams
+			// inside it. The reference is the band we last COMMANDED for, not the
+			// rig's previous band — otherwise a first move after startup, or any
+			// move the operator made by hand, would never be reconciled.
+			if mode == motorTrackBand {
+				b := bandForHz(rs.FreqHz)
+				if b == lastCmdBand {
+					continue
+				}
+				if newFreq {
+					applog.Printf("ultrabeam: band changed %q → %q — re-tuning to %d kHz", lastCmdBand, b, rigKHz)
+				}
+			} else {
+				diff := rigKHz - ref
+				if diff < 0 {
+					diff = -diff
+				}
+				if ref > 0 && diff < stepKHz {
+					continue // within the deadband — leave the motors alone
+				}
 			}
 			a.noteMotorMoveCommanded()
 			if err := c.SetFrequency(rigKHz, st.Direction); err != nil {
 				applog.Printf("ultrabeam: follow re-tune to %d kHz failed: %v", rigKHz, err)
 			} else {
 				lastCmdKHz = rigKHz
-				applog.Printf("ultrabeam: followed rig → %d kHz (dir %d, was ref %d kHz, step %d)", rigKHz, st.Direction, ref, stepKHz)
+				lastCmdBand = bandForHz(rs.FreqHz)
+				applog.Printf("ultrabeam: followed rig → %d kHz (dir %d, was ref %d kHz, mode %s, step %d)", rigKHz, st.Direction, ref, mode, stepKHz)
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -15078,12 +15391,17 @@ type UltrabeamStatusInfo struct {
 	Elements  []int  `json:"elements"` // per-element lengths (mm); empty when unsupported
 	// Follow and StepKHz are mirrored here so the Station Control widget can show
 	// and change tracking without loading the whole settings block for a poll.
-	Follow  bool `json:"follow"`
-	StepKHz int  `json:"step_khz"`
+	Follow    bool   `json:"follow"`
+	StepKHz   int    `json:"step_khz"`
+	TrackMode string `json:"track_mode"`
 	// Bands the antenna is configured to cover — the widget offers exactly these
 	// as buttons rather than inventing its own list, so a band dropped in Settings
 	// cannot be clicked here.
 	Bands []string `json:"bands"`
+	// Where each band button tunes. Resolved here — operator's choice or the
+	// default — so the widget never has to carry its own copy of the band table
+	// and cannot drift from what Settings shows.
+	BandFreqs map[string]int `json:"band_freqs"`
 }
 
 // GetUltrabeamStatus returns the antenna's current state for the UI poll.
@@ -15094,6 +15412,13 @@ func (a *App) GetUltrabeamStatus() UltrabeamStatusInfo {
 	out.Type = s.Type
 	out.Follow = s.Follow
 	out.StepKHz = s.StepKHz
+	out.TrackMode = normMotorTrackMode(s.TrackMode)
+	out.BandFreqs = map[string]int{}
+	for _, b := range s.Bands {
+		if khz := motorTuneKHzForBand(s.BandFreqs, b); khz > 0 {
+			out.BandFreqs[b] = khz
+		}
+	}
 	out.Bands = append(out.Bands, s.Bands...)
 	if a.motorAnt == nil {
 		return out
@@ -15199,7 +15524,7 @@ func (a *App) MotorNudgeKHz(deltaKHz int) error {
 // opening Settings. Both are ordinary operating decisions — an operator turns
 // tracking off to park the antenna and back on to resume — and a preferences
 // dialog is the wrong place for something changed that often.
-func (a *App) SetMotorFollow(on bool, stepKHz int) error {
+func (a *App) SetMotorFollow(on bool, stepKHz int, mode string) error {
 	s, err := a.GetUltrabeamSettings()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -15211,6 +15536,11 @@ func (a *App) SetMotorFollow(on bool, stepKHz int) error {
 	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("step must be 25, 50 or 100 kHz")
 	}
+	// An empty mode leaves it alone, so the caller toggling tracking on and off
+	// does not have to know or resend it.
+	if strings.TrimSpace(mode) != "" {
+		s.TrackMode = normMotorTrackMode(mode)
+	}
 	s.Follow = on
 
 	// Persist WITHOUT the restart. SaveUltrabeamSettings tears the client down and
@@ -15232,6 +15562,9 @@ func (a *App) SetMotorFollow(on bool, stepKHz int) error {
 	if err := a.settings.Set(a.ctx, keyUltrabeamStep, strconv.Itoa(s.StepKHz)); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	if err := a.settings.Set(a.ctx, keyMotorTrackMode, normMotorTrackMode(s.TrackMode)); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	a.restartMotorFollow(s)
 	return nil
 }
@@ -15249,8 +15582,8 @@ func (a *App) restartMotorFollow(s UltrabeamSettings) {
 	}
 	stop := make(chan struct{})
 	a.ubFollowStop = stop
-	applog.Printf("ultrabeam: follow loop restarting — covered bands %v, step %d kHz", s.Bands, s.StepKHz)
-	go a.ultrabeamFollowLoop(a.motorAnt, s.StepKHz, s.Bands, stop)
+	applog.Printf("ultrabeam: follow loop restarting — covered bands %v, mode %s, step %d kHz", s.Bands, normMotorTrackMode(s.TrackMode), s.StepKHz)
+	go a.ultrabeamFollowLoop(a.motorAnt, s.TrackMode, s.StepKHz, s.Bands, stop)
 }
 
 // UltrabeamRetract retracts all elements (storage / safe position).
@@ -16811,6 +17144,151 @@ func (a *App) clusterStatusMaps() *clusterStatusCache {
 // was ambiguous and the frontend couldn't infer) we degrade gracefully
 // to band-only — saying "worked" rather than wrongly flagging "new-slot"
 // just because we don't know the mode.
+// decodeGridsCap is how many callsigns one generation holds before it rotates.
+//
+// 100 000 measured at 82 bytes an entry — 8 MB a generation, 16 MB for both,
+// which is nothing next to what it buys: a locator on a spot instead of an empty
+// column. The old 20 000 was chosen when the only feed was this station's own
+// decodes and the ceiling was never reached anyway.
+const decodeGridsCap = 100000
+
+// GetChaseNewGrids reports whether learnt locators are kept across restarts.
+func (a *App) GetChaseNewGrids() bool { return a.settingOr(keyChaseNewGrids, "") == "1" }
+
+// GridCacheStatus is the live count under the option. A store that is on but
+// has learnt nothing looks exactly like a broken one until a number moves.
+type GridCacheStatus struct {
+	Enabled bool `json:"enabled"`
+	Known   int  `json:"known"`   // locators in memory, stored + learnt this session
+	Pending int  `json:"pending"` // waiting for the next batch write
+}
+
+// GetGridCacheStatus reports what the locator store holds.
+func (a *App) GetGridCacheStatus() GridCacheStatus {
+	out := GridCacheStatus{Enabled: a.gridStore != nil}
+	a.decodeGridsMu.RLock()
+	out.Known = len(a.decodeGrids) + len(a.decodeGridsOld)
+	a.decodeGridsMu.RUnlock()
+	if a.gridStore != nil {
+		out.Pending = a.gridStore.Pending()
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// SetChaseNewGrids turns grid chasing on or off and applies it immediately.
+func (a *App) SetChaseNewGrids(on bool) error {
+	a.setSetting(keyChaseNewGrids, boolStr(on))
+	a.startGridCache()
+	// Resubscribe: with grid chasing the feed covers every band, without it only
+	// the opening bands — and with neither consumer it comes down entirely.
+	a.startBandOpenFeed()
+	return nil
+}
+
+// startGridCache brings the locator store up or down to match the setting.
+//
+// Switching it ON seeds the in-memory map from the database, which is the whole
+// point: the cluster's locator column is populated in the first second instead
+// of after an hour of listening. Switching it OFF closes the file and leaves the
+// map alone — what has already been learnt this session stays usable, it simply
+// stops being remembered. Nothing is deleted: turning the option back on picks
+// up where it left off.
+func (a *App) startGridCache() {
+	if a.gridStore != nil {
+		if err := a.gridStore.Close(); err != nil {
+			applog.Printf("gridcache: close: %v", err)
+		}
+		a.gridStore = nil
+	}
+	if !a.GetChaseNewGrids() {
+		return
+	}
+	path := filepath.Join(a.dataDir, "grids.db")
+	st, err := gridcache.Open(path, applog.Printf)
+	if err != nil {
+		applog.Printf("gridcache: disabled — %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	seed, err := st.LoadAll()
+	if err != nil {
+		applog.Printf("gridcache: cannot read %s (%v) — starting empty", path, err)
+		seed = map[string]string{}
+	}
+	a.decodeGridsMu.Lock()
+	if a.decodeGrids == nil {
+		a.decodeGrids = make(map[string]string, len(seed)+512)
+	}
+	// Seed UNDER what this session already heard: a locator decoded a minute ago
+	// is newer than one stored days back, and the newest report is the one that
+	// counts when a station has moved.
+	for call, grid := range seed {
+		if _, live := a.decodeGrids[call]; !live {
+			a.decodeGrids[call] = grid
+		}
+	}
+	n := len(a.decodeGrids)
+	a.decodeGridsMu.Unlock()
+
+	a.gridStore = st
+	st.Start(a.ctx)
+	applog.Printf("gridcache: grid chasing on — %d locators loaded from %s (%d known in total)", len(seed), path, n)
+}
+
+// rememberDecodeGrid records the grid a station announced.
+//
+// Rotation, not eviction: when the current generation fills it becomes the
+// previous one and a fresh map takes over. Nothing is scanned, nothing is
+// timestamped, and the write stays a single map assignment — which matters
+// because this runs once per decode.
+func (a *App) rememberDecodeGrid(call, grid, source string) {
+	call = strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(call))
+	grid = strings.TrimSpace(grid)
+	if call == "" || grid == "" {
+		return
+	}
+	store := a.gridStore
+
+	a.decodeGridsMu.Lock()
+	if a.decodeGrids == nil {
+		a.decodeGrids = make(map[string]string, 512)
+	}
+	// Rotate only while nothing is persisting the map. With a store the cap would
+	// discard callsigns the database still holds, so the lookup would miss what
+	// we know; age in the store is the bound instead.
+	if store == nil && len(a.decodeGrids) >= decodeGridsCap {
+		a.decodeGridsOld = a.decodeGrids
+		a.decodeGrids = make(map[string]string, 512)
+	}
+	// Only a CHANGE is worth writing. The feeds repeat themselves — the same
+	// station is reported by dozens of receivers a minute — so queueing every
+	// report would put the whole stream in the batch instead of the news in it.
+	changed := a.decodeGrids[call] != grid
+	if changed && a.decodeGridsOld != nil && a.decodeGridsOld[call] == grid {
+		// Known already, just in the older generation: promote it without calling
+		// it news.
+		changed = false
+	}
+	a.decodeGrids[call] = grid
+	a.decodeGridsMu.Unlock()
+
+	if changed && store != nil {
+		store.Put(call, grid, source)
+	}
+}
+
+// lookupDecodeGrid returns the last grid heard for a callsign, "" if unknown.
+// The previous generation is consulted second, so a station that has gone quiet
+// keeps its locator across one rotation instead of losing it at the cliff.
+func (a *App) lookupDecodeGrid(call string) string {
+	call = strings.ToUpper(call)
+	a.decodeGridsMu.RLock()
+	defer a.decodeGridsMu.RUnlock()
+	if g := a.decodeGrids[call]; g != "" {
+		return g
+	}
+	return a.decodeGridsOld[call]
+}
+
 func (a *App) ClusterSpotStatuses(spots []SpotQuery) []SpotStatus {
 	out := make([]SpotStatus, len(spots))
 	if a.qso == nil {
@@ -16899,12 +17377,10 @@ func (a *App) ClusterSpotStatuses(spots []SpotQuery) []SpotStatus {
 		// is part of the key, so the "group digital modes" option decides whether a
 		// grid worked on FT8 still counts as new on FT4 — one rule, no branch here.
 		{
-			// The length check has to be INSIDE the lock: the decode goroutine
-			// replaces this map wholesale when it grows too large, so reading len()
-			// unguarded is a race on the map header, not a cheap fast path.
-			a.decodeGridsMu.RLock()
-			g := a.decodeGrids[strings.ToUpper(q.Call)]
-			a.decodeGridsMu.RUnlock()
+			// Read through the accessor: the decode goroutine swaps these maps on
+			// rotation, so touching them unguarded is a race on the map header,
+			// not a cheap fast path.
+			g := a.lookupDecodeGrid(q.Call)
 			if g != "" {
 				out[i].Grid = g
 				cm := out[i].Mode

appearance.go

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+package main
+
+// Row colouring for the log grid, by QSL / LoTW status — the thing Logger32 does
+// and the reason an operator can tell at a glance what still needs sending.
+//
+// Rules are ORDERED and the first match wins, because a contact is usually
+// several things at once: one confirmed on LoTW and by card is confirmed, not
+// "sent, awaiting reply". Putting the order in the data rather than in a chain
+// of ifs is what lets the settings panel show it in the same order it applies.
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// RowColorRule is one status and the colour it paints.
+type RowColorRule struct {
+	ID      string `json:"id"`
+	Color   string `json:"color"`
+	Enabled bool   `json:"enabled"`
+}
+
+// RowColorSettings is the whole appearance block.
+type RowColorSettings struct {
+	Enabled bool           `json:"enabled"`
+	Rules   []RowColorRule `json:"rules"`
+}
+
+// The rule ids, in priority order. The frontend matches on these and holds the
+// labels, so a translated name never has to travel through the settings.
+var rowColorOrder = []string{
+	"confirmed_lotw",  // LoTW confirmation received
+	"confirmed_paper", // card or eQSL received
+	"sent_waiting",    // sent by some route, nothing back yet
+	"to_send",         // a card is requested / queued and has not gone out
+}
+
+// Defaults: green for done, amber for waiting, blue for owed. Deliberately
+// muted — they are composited at low opacity over a dark grid, and a saturated
+// value there reads as an error state rather than a status.
+var rowColorDefaults = map[string]string{
+	"confirmed_lotw":  "#16a34a",
+	"confirmed_paper": "#0ea5e9",
+	"sent_waiting":    "#f59e0b",
+	"to_send":         "#a855f7",
+}
+
+// hexColor guards what reaches the stylesheet. The value is interpolated into a
+// CSS color-mix() by the grid, so anything that is not plainly a hex colour is
+// refused rather than passed through.
+var hexColor = regexp.MustCompile(`^#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$`)
+
+func normRowColors(s RowColorSettings) RowColorSettings {
+	byID := map[string]RowColorRule{}
+	for _, r := range s.Rules {
+		byID[r.ID] = r
+	}
+	out := RowColorSettings{Enabled: s.Enabled}
+	for _, id := range rowColorOrder {
+		r := byID[id]
+		r.ID = id
+		if !hexColor.MatchString(strings.TrimSpace(r.Color)) {
+			r.Color = rowColorDefaults[id]
+		}
+		out.Rules = append(out.Rules, r)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// GetRowColors returns the row-colouring configuration, defaults included so the
+// panel never has to invent one.
+func (a *App) GetRowColors() RowColorSettings {
+	var s RowColorSettings
+	if raw := a.settingOr(keyRowColors, ""); raw != "" {
+		_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(raw), &s)
+	}
+	return normRowColors(s)
+}
+
+// SaveRowColors persists it.
+func (a *App) SaveRowColors(s RowColorSettings) error {
+	b, err := json.Marshal(normRowColors(s))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	a.setSetting(keyRowColors, string(b))
+	return nil
+}

appearance_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package main
+
+import "testing"
+
+// The colour is interpolated into a CSS color-mix() by the grid, so anything
+// that is not plainly a hex colour has to be refused rather than passed on.
+func TestRowColorsRefuseAnythingButHex(t *testing.T) {
+	in := RowColorSettings{Enabled: true, Rules: []RowColorRule{
+		{ID: "confirmed_lotw", Color: "#123abc", Enabled: true},
+		{ID: "sent_waiting", Color: "red; background:url(x)", Enabled: true},
+		{ID: "to_send", Color: "", Enabled: true},
+	}}
+	got := normRowColors(in)
+
+	byID := map[string]RowColorRule{}
+	for _, r := range got.Rules {
+		byID[r.ID] = r
+	}
+	if byID["confirmed_lotw"].Color != "#123abc" {
+		t.Errorf("a valid colour was rewritten: %q", byID["confirmed_lotw"].Color)
+	}
+	if byID["sent_waiting"].Color != rowColorDefaults["sent_waiting"] {
+		t.Errorf("an injection attempt survived: %q", byID["sent_waiting"].Color)
+	}
+	if byID["to_send"].Color != rowColorDefaults["to_send"] {
+		t.Errorf("an empty colour was kept: %q", byID["to_send"].Color)
+	}
+}
+
+// Priority lives in the data, not in a chain of ifs: a contact confirmed on
+// LoTW AND by card is confirmed, not "sent, awaiting reply". The panel shows
+// the rules in the order they apply, so that order must survive a round trip.
+func TestRowColorsKeepPriorityOrder(t *testing.T) {
+	// Saved in a jumbled order, as a hand-edited settings row could be.
+	got := normRowColors(RowColorSettings{Rules: []RowColorRule{
+		{ID: "to_send", Color: "#111111"},
+		{ID: "confirmed_lotw", Color: "#222222"},
+	}})
+	if len(got.Rules) != len(rowColorOrder) {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d rules, want every one present", len(got.Rules))
+	}
+	for i, id := range rowColorOrder {
+		if got.Rules[i].ID != id {
+			t.Errorf("rule %d is %q, want %q", i, got.Rules[i].ID, id)
+		}
+	}
+	// The saved colours survived the reordering.
+	if got.Rules[0].Color != "#222222" {
+		t.Errorf("confirmed_lotw lost its colour: %q", got.Rules[0].Color)
+	}
+}

bandopen_sources.go

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"hamlog/internal/applog"
 	"hamlog/internal/bandopen"
 	"hamlog/internal/cluster"
+	"hamlog/internal/geo"
+	"hamlog/internal/gridcache"
 	"hamlog/internal/pskr"
 )
 
@@ -126,19 +128,54 @@ func (a *App) startBandOpenFeed() {
 		a.pskr = nil
 	}
 	s := a.GetBandOpenSettings()
+	a.bandOpen.on.Store(s.Enabled)
+	a.setBandOpenBands(s.Bands)
 	if !s.Enabled {
+		// Put out whatever is currently lit. Leaving the badges up would keep
+		// announcing an opening from a watch that is now off, and they only fade
+		// on a timer fed by spots this path no longer looks at — so they would
+		// hang there until the app restarted.
+		a.clearBandOpenings()
+	}
+	chaseGrids := a.gridStore != nil
+	if !s.Enabled && !chaseGrids {
 		return
 	}
 	// Every spot is measured from the operator's position. Without one there is
 	// nothing to measure, and a detector fed unmeasurable spots reports nothing
 	// while looking like it is working.
 	if !a.opSet {
-		applog.Printf("bandopen: no station grid set — the opening watch needs one to measure a path")
+		applog.Printf("pskr: no station grid set — the feed needs one to measure a path")
 		return
 	}
+
+	// Grid chasing wants every band; the opening watch wants its four. "+" is the
+	// MQTT single-level wildcard, so one subscription per square covers the lot.
+	bands := s.Bands
+	if chaseGrids {
+		bands = []string{"+"}
+	}
+	// Filter at the BROKER on the receiver's square rather than receiving the
+	// world and discarding it here. Measured on the live feed: the four opening
+	// bands unfiltered are 83 messages a second, of which roughly one in a
+	// hundred survived the NearKm test below. One ring of squares — about the
+	// same 300 km — is 0.2 to 1.2 a second, and the same for every operator,
+	// where filtering by DXCC ranged from 1.2 (OH) to 72.5 (K).
+	rxGrids := geo.NeighbourGrids(a.opLat, a.opLon, 1)
+
+	var onGrid func(call, grid string)
+	if chaseGrids {
+		onGrid = func(call, grid string) { a.rememberDecodeGrid(call, grid, gridcache.SourceMQTT) }
+	}
+	var onSpot func(pskr.Spot)
+	if s.Enabled {
+		onSpot = a.feedBandOpen
+	}
+
 	a.pskr = pskr.New(pskr.Config{
-		Bands: s.Bands,
-		OpLat: a.opLat, OpLon: a.opLon,
+		Bands:   bands,
+		RxGrids: rxGrids,
+		OpLat:   a.opLat, OpLon: a.opLon,
 		Geo: func(grid string) (int, int, bool) {
 			lat, lon, ok := gridToLatLon(grid)
 			if !ok {
@@ -150,12 +187,16 @@ func (a *App) startBandOpenFeed() {
 			b := int(initialBearingDeg(a.opLat, a.opLon, lat, lon) + 0.5)
 			return d, b, true
 		},
-		OnSpot: a.feedBandOpen,
+		OnSpot: onSpot,
+		OnGrid: onGrid,
 		Logf:   applog.Printf,
 	})
 	if err := a.pskr.Start(); err != nil {
-		applog.Printf("bandopen: PSK Reporter feed did not start: %v", err)
+		applog.Printf("pskr: feed did not start: %v", err)
+		return
 	}
+	applog.Printf("pskr: feed up — bands %v, %d receiver squares (openings=%v, grids=%v)",
+		bands, len(rxGrids), s.Enabled, chaseGrids)
 }
 
 // feedBandOpen hands one PSK Reporter decode to the detector.
@@ -164,7 +205,7 @@ func (a *App) startBandOpenFeed() {
 // so it does the least possible: the detector's own window and de-duplication
 // by callsign are what turn that flood into one announcement.
 func (a *App) feedBandOpen(s pskr.Spot) {
-	if !bandopen.Watched(s.Band) {
+	if !a.bandOpenWanted(s.Band) {
 		return
 	}
 	a.bandOpen.mu.Lock()

bandopening.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"hamlog/internal/applog"
@@ -21,7 +22,21 @@ import (
 )
 
 type bandOpenState struct {
-	mu   sync.Mutex
+	// on mirrors the "Watch for band openings" setting.
+	//
+	// Cached rather than read per spot: this is the cluster hot path, where a
+	// settings query per spot is exactly what the rest of this file avoids.
+	// startBandOpenFeed owns it — it runs at startup and again on every save, so
+	// the switch takes effect without a restart.
+	on atomic.Bool
+	// bands is the operator's SELECTED set, held as map[string]bool.
+	//
+	// bandopen.Watched only says which bands the detector is capable of; it
+	// knows nothing about the chips in Settings. Nothing checked the selection
+	// on either feed path, so unticking 10 m and 2 m changed the subscription and
+	// left the cluster path announcing them anyway.
+	bands atomic.Value
+	mu    sync.Mutex
 	det  *bandopen.Detector
 	last []bandopen.Opening // most recent first, for the UI
 	// live holds the announced openings that are still going, keyed by band, and
@@ -45,6 +60,16 @@ const maxRememberedOpenings = 20
 
 // detectBandOpening feeds one spot to the detector and announces a hit.
 func (a *App) detectBandOpening(s cluster.Spot) {
+	// The watch has to be switched on.
+	//
+	// It was not checked here at all: the setting only ever governed the extra
+	// DATA SOURCES (the RBN nodes and the PSK Reporter feed), while the detector
+	// itself ran on every ordinary cluster spot. So an operator who had never
+	// enabled the watch still got opening banners, from a feature they had
+	// deliberately left off.
+	if !a.bandOpen.on.Load() || !a.bandOpenWanted(s.Band) {
+		return
+	}
 	// No operator grid = no distance and no bearing on the spot, and the whole
 	// detection rests on those two. Say nothing rather than guess.
 	if !a.opSet || s.DistanceKm <= 0 || !bandopen.Watched(s.Band) {
@@ -122,6 +147,56 @@ func (a *App) GetLiveOpenings() []bandopen.Opening {
 	return out
 }
 
+// bandOpenWanted reports whether the operator has this band ticked. Falls back
+// to the detector's own set until a selection has been stored, so a band is
+// never silently dropped before the settings have been read.
+func (a *App) bandOpenWanted(band string) bool {
+	if !bandopen.Watched(band) {
+		return false
+	}
+	sel, ok := a.bandOpen.bands.Load().(map[string]bool)
+	if !ok || len(sel) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+	return sel[strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band))]
+}
+
+// setBandOpenBands records the selection and puts out badges for bands that
+// have just been unticked — they fade on a timer fed by spots the detector no
+// longer looks at, so they would otherwise stay lit until the next restart.
+func (a *App) setBandOpenBands(bands []string) {
+	sel := make(map[string]bool, len(bands))
+	for _, b := range bands {
+		sel[strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(b))] = true
+	}
+	a.bandOpen.bands.Store(sel)
+
+	a.bandOpen.mu.Lock()
+	defer a.bandOpen.mu.Unlock()
+	for b := range a.bandOpen.live {
+		if len(sel) > 0 && !sel[b] {
+			delete(a.bandOpen.live, b)
+			delete(a.bandOpen.aliveUntil, b)
+			applog.Printf("bandopen: %s is no longer watched — badge cleared", strings.ToUpper(b))
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// clearBandOpenings puts out every lit badge and forgets the detector's window.
+// Called when the watch is switched off: the badges fade on a timer fed by
+// spots the detector no longer looks at, so without this they would stay up
+// until the next restart. The remembered list is left alone — those openings
+// really did happen, and the operator may still want to see what he missed.
+func (a *App) clearBandOpenings() {
+	a.bandOpen.mu.Lock()
+	defer a.bandOpen.mu.Unlock()
+	a.bandOpen.live = nil
+	a.bandOpen.aliveUntil = nil
+	// Drop the accumulated spot window too, so switching the watch back on starts
+	// from what is on the air now rather than from an hour-old burst.
+	a.bandOpen.det = nil
+}
+
 // announceOpening logs and pushes one detection. Shared by both feeds — the
 // cluster path here and the PSK Reporter path in bandopen_sources.go — so an
 // opening reads the same however it was noticed.

bandopening_gate_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/bandopen"
+	"hamlog/internal/cluster"
+)
+
+// The "Watch for band openings" switch has to gate the DETECTOR, not just the
+// extra data sources.
+//
+// It originally governed only the RBN nodes and the PSK Reporter feed, while
+// the detector itself ran on every ordinary cluster spot — so an operator who
+// had never enabled the watch still got opening banners for a feature he had
+// deliberately left off. That is what this pins.
+func TestBandOpenWatchGatesTheDetector(t *testing.T) {
+	spot := func() cluster.Spot {
+		return cluster.Spot{
+			DXCall: "EA1ABC", Band: "6m", DistanceKm: 1400, ShortPath: 210,
+			ReceivedAt: time.Now(),
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Switched off: the spot must not even reach the detector.
+	off := &App{opSet: true, opLat: 48.0, opLon: 2.0}
+	off.detectBandOpening(spot())
+	if off.bandOpen.det != nil {
+		t.Error("the detector ran with the watch switched off")
+	}
+
+	// Switched on: the same spot is accepted (one spot is not an opening, so
+	// nothing is announced — but the detector now exists and is collecting).
+	on := &App{opSet: true, opLat: 48.0, opLon: 2.0}
+	on.bandOpen.on.Store(true)
+	on.detectBandOpening(spot())
+	if on.bandOpen.det == nil {
+		t.Error("the detector did not run with the watch switched on")
+	}
+}
+
+// Switching the watch off must put the badges out. They fade on a timer fed by
+// spots the detector no longer looks at, so left alone they would stay lit
+// until the next restart.
+func TestClearBandOpeningsPutsTheBadgesOut(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	a.bandOpen.live = map[string]bandopen.Opening{"6m": {Band: "6m", Calls: 9}}
+	a.bandOpen.aliveUntil = map[string]time.Time{"6m": time.Now().Add(time.Hour)}
+	a.bandOpen.det = bandopen.New(bandopen.DefaultConfig())
+	a.bandOpen.last = []bandopen.Opening{{Band: "6m", Calls: 9}}
+
+	a.clearBandOpenings()
+
+	if got := a.GetLiveOpenings(); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a badge stayed lit after the watch was switched off: %v", got)
+	}
+	if a.bandOpen.det != nil {
+		t.Error("the accumulated spot window survived — switching back on would start from a stale burst")
+	}
+	// The history is NOT cleared: those openings really happened.
+	if len(a.GetBandOpenings()) != 1 {
+		t.Error("the remembered openings were thrown away")
+	}
+}
+
+// Unticking a band in Settings must actually stop its announcements.
+//
+// Nothing checked the operator's selection on either feed path: bandopen.Watched
+// only says which bands the detector is CAPABLE of. So a station with just 6 m
+// ticked still got 10 m and 2 m badges, from the cluster path and — once grid
+// chasing widened the subscription to every band — from PSK Reporter too.
+func TestBandOpenHonoursTheSelectedBands(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{opSet: true, opLat: 48, opLon: 2}
+	a.bandOpen.on.Store(true)
+	a.setBandOpenBands([]string{"6m"})
+
+	if !a.bandOpenWanted("6m") {
+		t.Error("6m is ticked and was refused")
+	}
+	for _, b := range []string{"10m", "2m", "4m"} {
+		if a.bandOpenWanted(b) {
+			t.Errorf("%s is not ticked and was accepted", b)
+		}
+	}
+	// A band the detector cannot watch at all stays out whatever is stored.
+	if a.bandOpenWanted("20m") {
+		t.Error("20m is not a watched band and was accepted")
+	}
+
+	// And the cluster path must obey it too.
+	a.detectBandOpening(cluster.Spot{
+		DXCall: "K1ABC", Band: "10m", DistanceKm: 6000, ShortPath: 280, ReceivedAt: time.Now(),
+	})
+	if a.bandOpen.det != nil {
+		t.Error("a spot on an unticked band reached the detector")
+	}
+}
+
+// Unticking a band puts its badge out. They fade on a timer fed by spots the
+// detector no longer looks at, so it would otherwise stay lit until a restart.
+func TestUntickingABandClearsItsBadge(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	a.bandOpen.live = map[string]bandopen.Opening{
+		"6m":  {Band: "6m", Calls: 9},
+		"10m": {Band: "10m", Calls: 5},
+	}
+	a.bandOpen.aliveUntil = map[string]time.Time{
+		"6m":  time.Now().Add(time.Hour),
+		"10m": time.Now().Add(time.Hour),
+	}
+	a.setBandOpenBands([]string{"6m"})
+
+	live := a.GetLiveOpenings()
+	if len(live) != 1 || live[0].Band != "6m" {
+		t.Errorf("live openings = %v, want only 6m", live)
+	}
+}

changelog.json

@@ -1,4 +1,54 @@
 [
+  {
+    "version": "0.24.8",
+    "date": "",
+    "en": [
+      "Cluster: the grid cache now holds 100,000 callsigns and rotates instead of emptying itself, so locators stop vanishing from the list.",
+      "New option \"Chase new grids\": locators learnt from your decodes and from PSK Reporter are kept in their own database, with their source.",
+      "Band openings: the PSK Reporter feed is now filtered at the broker, which cuts it from about 83 messages a second to under two.",
+      "Band openings: unticking a band now actually stops its announcements, and puts its badge out.",
+      "Callsign lookup: the website, postal code and HamQTH profile picture are now read — the QSO web column was never filled by any lookup.",
+      "New selectable column \"QSO number\": position in the log, 1 for the oldest contact.",
+      "New Appearance settings: colour whole log rows by QSL status, with your own colours from a palette.",
+      "The QSO number was missing on contacts logged from WSJT-X — that path bypassed the numbering."
+    ],
+    "fr": [
+      "Cluster : le cache de locators garde 100 000 indicatifs et tourne au lieu de se vider, les locators ne disparaissent donc plus de la liste.",
+      "Nouvelle option « Chasse aux nouveaux carrés » : les locators appris de tes décodes et de PSK Reporter sont conservés dans leur propre base, avec leur source.",
+      "Ouvertures de bande : le flux PSK Reporter est désormais filtré chez le broker, ce qui le fait passer d environ 83 messages par seconde à moins de deux.",
+      "Ouvertures de bande : décocher une bande arrête réellement ses annonces et éteint son badge.",
+      "Recherche d indicatif : le site web, le code postal et la photo de profil HamQTH sont désormais lus — la colonne web du QSO n était jamais remplie.",
+      "Nouvelle colonne sélectionnable « Numéro de QSO » : position dans le log, 1 pour le contact le plus ancien.",
+      "Nouveaux réglages Apparence : colorer les lignes entières du log selon le statut QSL, avec tes couleurs choisies dans une palette.",
+      "Le numéro de QSO manquait sur les contacts enregistrés depuis WSJT-X — ce chemin contournait la numérotation."
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.24.7",
+    "date": "",
+    "en": [
+      "QSOs logged from WSJT-X now carry the space weather and the distance, like hand-logged ones.",
+      "Band openings: EME contacts are no longer mistaken for an opening. Each band now has the longest path the atmosphere can carry.",
+      "Kenwood: WSJT-X \"Fake It\" no longer leaves the dial on the transmit frequency.",
+      "PowerGenius XL: the Station Control card now shows power, current, SWR and temperature without a FlexRadio.",
+      "Motorized antennas: tracking now offers three modes — every frequency change, past a step, or band change only.",
+      "Motorized antennas: each covered band now has its own tune frequency, set in Settings.",
+      "Awards: a single award can now be exported on its own.",
+      "Awards: each reference now has its own validity window, so a reference that ceased to exist stops counting for later QSOs.",
+      "Band openings: the watch switch now governs the detection itself, not just the extra data sources."
+    ],
+    "fr": [
+      "Les QSO enregistrés depuis WSJT-X portent désormais la météo spatiale et la distance, comme ceux saisis à la main.",
+      "Ouvertures de bande : les contacts EME ne sont plus pris pour une ouverture. Chaque bande a désormais la distance maximale que l atmosphère peut porter.",
+      "Kenwood : le « Fake It » de WSJT-X ne laisse plus le VFO sur la fréquence d émission.",
+      "PowerGenius XL : la carte du Contrôle station affiche puissance, courant, ROS et température sans FlexRadio.",
+      "Antennes motorisées : le suivi propose trois modes — à chaque changement de fréquence, au-delà d un pas, ou au changement de bande.",
+      "Antennes motorisées : chaque bande couverte a désormais sa propre fréquence d accord, réglable dans les Réglages.",
+      "Diplômes : un diplôme peut désormais être exporté seul.",
+      "Diplômes : chaque référence a désormais sa fenêtre de validité, une référence disparue cesse donc de compter pour les QSO suivants.",
+      "Ouvertures de bande : l interrupteur de la veille gouverne désormais la détection elle-même, plus seulement les sources de données."
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "version": "0.24.6",
     "date": "",
@@ -1097,4 +1147,4 @@
       "Ce résumé « Nouveautés » s'affiche désormais au premier lancement après chaque mise à jour."
     ]
   }
-]
+]

decodegrids_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/gridcache"
+)
+
+// The grid cache used to drop EVERYTHING at its ceiling. That was survivable
+// while the only feed was this station's own decodes, which never reached it.
+// Fed by anything larger it is a cliff: every locator in the cluster list
+// disappears at once, periodically, and the operator sees the column empty
+// itself for no reason.
+//
+// Rotation keeps the previous generation, so a full cache costs the older half
+// and nothing more.
+func TestDecodeGridRotationKeepsThePreviousGeneration(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+
+	// Fill exactly one generation.
+	for i := 0; i < decodeGridsCap; i++ {
+		a.rememberDecodeGrid(fmt.Sprintf("CALL%06d", i), "JN36", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("CALL000000"); got != "JN36" {
+		t.Fatalf("first entry lost before any rotation: %q", got)
+	}
+	if a.decodeGridsOld != nil {
+		t.Fatal("rotated early — the cap is the ceiling of ONE generation")
+	}
+
+	// One more entry rotates.
+	a.rememberDecodeGrid("NEWCALL", "IO91", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	if a.decodeGridsOld == nil {
+		t.Fatal("did not rotate at the cap")
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("NEWCALL"); got != "IO91" {
+		t.Errorf("the entry that caused the rotation was lost: %q", got)
+	}
+	// The whole previous generation is still readable — this is the point.
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("CALL000000"); got != "JN36" {
+		t.Errorf("a locator from the previous generation was dropped: %q — that is the cliff again", got)
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("CALL099999"); got != "JN36" {
+		t.Errorf("previous generation incomplete: %q", got)
+	}
+
+	// A second rotation is what finally retires the oldest half.
+	for i := 0; i < decodeGridsCap; i++ {
+		a.rememberDecodeGrid(fmt.Sprintf("SECOND%06d", i), "KP20", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("CALL000000"); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("the cache is unbounded: %q survived two rotations", got)
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("NEWCALL"); got != "IO91" {
+		t.Errorf("an entry one generation old was retired too early: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Callsigns are normalised on the way in AND on the way out, or a spot for
+// "f4bpo" would miss a grid learnt as "F4BPO".
+func TestDecodeGridCaseAndBlanks(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	a.rememberDecodeGrid(" f4bpo ", "JN36", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("F4BPO"); got != "JN36" {
+		t.Errorf("lookup of the upper-case form failed: %q", got)
+	}
+	a.rememberDecodeGrid("", "JN36", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	a.rememberDecodeGrid("K1ABC", "", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("K1ABC"); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("stored an empty grid: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// The write path runs on the decode goroutine while the cluster status builder
+// reads. Rotation swaps the map headers, so an unguarded read is a data race
+// rather than a stale value.
+//
+// This build is CGO-free, so -race is not available here; the test exercises the
+// interleaving and would fault on a concurrent map access even without it.
+func TestDecodeGridConcurrentAccess(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(2)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		for i := 0; i < 20000; i++ {
+			a.rememberDecodeGrid(fmt.Sprintf("W%05d", i), "FN31", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+		}
+	}()
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		for i := 0; i < 20000; i++ {
+			_ = a.lookupDecodeGrid(fmt.Sprintf("W%05d", i))
+		}
+	}()
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
+// Only a CHANGE may reach the write batch.
+//
+// The feeds repeat themselves — the same station is reported by dozens of
+// receivers a minute — so queueing every report would put the whole stream in
+// the batch instead of the news in it, and turn a cache into a write amplifier.
+func TestOnlyChangesAreQueued(t *testing.T) {
+	st, err := gridcache.Open(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "grids.db"), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer st.Close()
+	a := &App{gridStore: st}
+
+	a.rememberDecodeGrid("F4BPO", "JN36", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	if n := st.Pending(); n != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("a new locator queued %d writes, want 1", n)
+	}
+	if err := st.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	// The same report, a hundred times over, is not news.
+	for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
+		a.rememberDecodeGrid("F4BPO", "JN36", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	}
+	if n := st.Pending(); n != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("unchanged reports queued %d writes — the batch would carry the whole feed", n)
+	}
+
+	// A station that moved is.
+	a.rememberDecodeGrid("F4BPO", "KP30", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	if n := st.Pending(); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("a changed locator queued %d writes, want 1", n)
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("F4BPO"); got != "KP30" {
+		t.Errorf("the map kept the old locator: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Rotation must be OFF while a store is attached: it would discard callsigns the
+// database still holds, and the lookup would then miss something we know.
+func TestNoRotationWhilePersisting(t *testing.T) {
+	st, err := gridcache.Open(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "grids.db"), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer st.Close()
+	a := &App{gridStore: st}
+
+	for i := 0; i < decodeGridsCap+10; i++ {
+		a.rememberDecodeGrid(fmt.Sprintf("CALL%06d", i), "JN36", gridcache.SourceDecode)
+	}
+	if a.decodeGridsOld != nil {
+		t.Error("rotated while a store was attached — locators the database holds would go missing")
+	}
+	if got := a.lookupDecodeGrid("CALL000000"); got != "JN36" {
+		t.Errorf("the first entry was dropped: %q", got)
+	}
+}

frontend/src/App.tsx

@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ import { ExportFieldsDialog } from '@/components/ExportFieldsDialog';
 import { ShutdownProgress } from '@/components/ShutdownProgress';
 import { ClusterGrid } from '@/components/ClusterGrid';
 import { cleanSpotter, inferSpotMode, spotModeCategory, spotStatusKey } from '@/lib/spot';
-import { applySpotDisplay, readSpotDisplayOptions } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
+import { applySpotDisplay, readSpotDisplayOptions, SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
+import { GetRowColors } from '../wailsjs/go/main/App';
 import { WorkedBeforeGrid } from '@/components/WorkedBeforeGrid';
 import { NetControlPanel } from '@/components/NetControlPanel';
 import { ContestPanel, CONTEST_DEFAULT, type ContestSession } from '@/components/ContestPanel';
@@ -1497,8 +1498,11 @@ export default function App() {
   // beside Hide worked and not among the status chips.
   const [clusterLotwOnly, setClusterLotwOnly] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterLotwOnly') === '1');
   const [clusterSpotterConts, setClusterSpotterConts] = useState<Set<string>>(() => lsSet<string>('opslog.clusterSpotterCont'));
-  const [clusterMuteWorked, setClusterMuteWorked] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterMuteWorked') === '1');
-  const [clusterSlotHighlight, setClusterSlotHighlight] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterSlotHighlight') === '1');
+  // Read through lib/spotDisplay, not straight from localStorage: while the two
+  // options are withdrawn it answers false, so the cluster list cannot end up
+  // applying an option the operator can no longer see or switch off.
+  const [clusterMuteWorked, setClusterMuteWorked] = useState(() => readSpotDisplayOptions().muteWorked);
+  const [clusterSlotHighlight, setClusterSlotHighlight] = useState(() => readSpotDisplayOptions().slotHighlight);
   const [clusterStatusFilter, setClusterStatusFilter] = useState<Set<SpotFilterKey>>(() => lsSet<SpotFilterKey>('opslog.clusterStatusFilter'));
   // Mode filter chips. Empty set = show every mode. Categories map the
   // inferred per-spot mode onto SSB (phone) / CW / DATA (digital).
@@ -1920,6 +1924,10 @@ export default function App() {
   // change). The grid reads them straight from the row — no per-page backend
   // recompute — so here we just parse the stored JSON string into the code→ref
   // object the award columns expect (keys are already upper-case).
+  // Row colouring by QSL status (Settings → Appearance). Reloaded when the
+  // settings dialog closes, which is the only place it changes.
+  const [rowColors, setRowColors] = useState<any>(null);
+  useEffect(() => { GetRowColors().then(setRowColors).catch(() => {}); }, [showSettings]);
   const qsosWithAwards = useMemo(
     () => (qsos as any[]).map((q) => ({ ...q, award_refs: parseAwardRefs(q.award_refs) })),
     [qsos],
@@ -3300,7 +3308,7 @@ export default function App() {
         sat_name: details.sat_name, sat_mode: details.sat_mode,
         contest_id: details.contest_id,
         srx: srxE.num, stx: stxE.num, srx_string: srxE.str, stx_string: stxE.str,
-        email: details.email,
+        email: details.email, web: details.web,
       };
       applyAwardRefs(payload, details.award_refs ?? '', awardFieldRef.current);
       // Contest mode overrides the exchange fields: CONTEST_ID, the sent
@@ -3663,6 +3671,7 @@ export default function App() {
         ituz:    d.ituz    ?? (last.ituz || undefined),
         cont:    d.cont    || last.cont  || '',
         email:   d.email   || last.email || '',
+        web:     d.web     || last.web || '',
         qsl_via: d.qsl_via || last.qsl_via || '',
       };
     });
@@ -3725,6 +3734,7 @@ export default function App() {
         ituz:    d.ituz    ?? (r.ituz || undefined),
         cont:    d.cont    || (r.cont ?? ''),
         email:   d.email   || (r.email ?? ''),
+        web:     d.web     || (r.web ?? ''),
         qsl_via: d.qsl_via || (r.qsl_via ?? ''),
       }));
       // Backfill anything the provider didn't supply from the last time we worked
@@ -4843,8 +4853,11 @@ export default function App() {
         <div className="space-y-0.5">
           {fSwitch(t('clu.hideWorked'), clusterHideWorked, setClusterHideWorked)}
           {fSwitch(t('clu.groupDup'), clusterGroup, setClusterGroup)}
-          {fSwitch(t('clu.muteWorkedShort'), clusterMuteWorked, (v) => { setClusterMuteWorked(v); writeUiPref('opslog.clusterMuteWorked', v ? '1' : '0'); })}
-          {fSwitch(t('clu.slotHighlightShort'), clusterSlotHighlight, (v) => { setClusterSlotHighlight(v); writeUiPref('opslog.clusterSlotHighlight', v ? '1' : '0'); })}
+          {/* The two display options are withdrawn for now — the flag is in
+              lib/spotDisplay, and it also forces them off for the band map, so
+              there is one place to flip when they come back. */}
+          {SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED && fSwitch(t('clu.muteWorkedShort'), clusterMuteWorked, (v) => { setClusterMuteWorked(v); writeUiPref('opslog.clusterMuteWorked', v ? '1' : '0'); })}
+          {SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED && fSwitch(t('clu.slotHighlightShort'), clusterSlotHighlight, (v) => { setClusterSlotHighlight(v); writeUiPref('opslog.clusterSlotHighlight', v ? '1' : '0'); })}
           {fSwitch(t('clu.lotwOnly'), clusterLotwOnly, (v) => { setClusterLotwOnly(v); writeUiPref('opslog.clusterLotwOnly', v ? '1' : '0'); })}
         </div>
 
@@ -5062,6 +5075,7 @@ export default function App() {
               // rewrote the other's widths.
               storageKey="mainpane"
               rows={qsosWithAwards as any}
+                rowColors={rowColors}
               myGrid={station.my_grid}
               total={total}
               awardCols={awardCols}
@@ -6345,6 +6359,7 @@ export default function App() {
               <RecentQSOsGrid
                 key={`rqg2-${activeProfileId ?? 'x'}`}
                 rows={qsosWithAwards as any}
+                rowColors={rowColors}
                 myGrid={station.my_grid}
                 total={total}
                 awardCols={awardCols}

frontend/src/components/AmpCard.tsx

@@ -174,6 +174,45 @@ export function AmpCard({ amp, flex, t }: { amp: Amp; flex: any; t: (k: string,
   const operate = viaFlex ? !!flex?.amp_operate : !!pg.operate;
   const connected = !!pg.connected || viaFlex;
   const fault = flex?.amp_fault;
+
+  // Meters built from the amplifier's own GSCP status frame, for when the radio
+  // is not feeding a meter stream.
+  //
+  // Whether there is power is the amp's state field; how much is the plain
+  // forward figure. NOT "peakfwd" — that is a latched maximum which is never
+  // reset and survives in the last-known status after the amp disconnects, so it
+  // once claimed 1350 W from an old transmission while 10 W was going out. Same
+  // reason peak_id is left alone. Both readings are gated on transmit so they
+  // fall back to zero between overs instead of freezing on the last one.
+  const pgxlMeters = () => {
+    if (!pg.connected) return null;
+    const txing = typeof flex?.transmitting === 'boolean' ? flex.transmitting : /TRANSMIT/i.test(pg.state || '');
+    const fwdW = peakHold('pgfwd', txing ? Number(pg.fwd_w) || 0 : 0);
+    const idA = peakHold('pgid', txing ? Number(pg.id) || 0 : 0);
+    const swr = peakHold('pgswr', txing ? Number(pg.vswr) || 0 : 0);
+    const tempC = Number(pg.temperature) || 0;
+    // Two columns, not four. The card sits beside a tall neighbour in Station
+    // Control, so a single row of four leaves the height empty and squeezes each
+    // bar into a quarter width — two rows of two use the room that is already
+    // there and give every bar twice the resolution.
+    return (
+      <div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-2 mt-2 pt-2 border-t border-border/50">
+        <MeterBar label={t('flxp.outputPower')} value={fwdW} unit="W" lo={0} hi={2000}
+          display={`${Math.round(fwdW)} W`}
+          segColor={(f) => (f > 0.9 ? '#dc2626' : f > 0.75 ? '#f59e0b' : '#ea580c')} />
+        <MeterBar label={t('ampw.id')} value={idA} lo={0} hi={25} display={`${idA.toFixed(1)} A`} accent="#16a34a" />
+        {/* Below 1:1 the reading is meaningless, so an idle amp shows a flat bar
+            rather than a zero that looks like a perfect match. */}
+        <MeterBar label={t('ampw.swr')} value={swr >= 1 ? swr : 1} lo={1} hi={3}
+          display={swr >= 1 ? swr.toFixed(1) : '—'}
+          segColor={(f) => (f > 0.75 ? '#dc2626' : f > 0.4 ? '#f59e0b' : '#16a34a')} />
+        <MeterBar label={t('ampw.temp')} value={tempC} unit="°C" lo={0} hi={100}
+          display={tempC > 0 ? `${Math.round(tempC)} °C` : '—'}
+          segColor={(f) => (f > 0.8 ? '#dc2626' : f > 0.6 ? '#f59e0b' : '#ea580c')} />
+      </div>
+    );
+  };
+
   return (
     <Card icon={Flame} ckey="amplifier" title={`${t('flxp.amplifier')}${flex?.amp_model ? ' · ' + flex.amp_model : (pg.model ? ' · ' + pg.model : '')} · ${amp.name}`} accent="#ea580c">
       <div className="flex items-center gap-3 flex-wrap">
@@ -204,13 +243,20 @@ export function AmpCard({ amp, flex, t }: { amp: Amp; flex: any; t: (k: string,
           <span className="px-2 py-1 rounded bg-danger-muted text-danger-muted-foreground text-xs font-bold">{t('flxp.fault')}: {fault}</span>
         )}
       </div>
-      {/* Amplifier meters (FWD / ID / TEMP …) from the FlexRadio UDP stream. */}
-      {viaFlex && (() => {
+      {/* Amplifier meters (FWD / ID / TEMP …).
+          The FlexRadio UDP stream is the preferred source — it is fast and reads
+          the same as SmartSDR. When there is no Flex, or it is not streaming,
+          the amplifier's OWN link carries the same figures; falling back to them
+          is what the docked widget already does. Without that fallback this card
+          showed an operator on a Kenwood nothing but OPERATE and the fan mode,
+          while the amplifier was reporting power, current and temperature all
+          along. */}
+      {(() => {
         const meters = (flex?.meters as any[]) || [];
         const dbmToW = (d: number) => Math.pow(10, (d - 30) / 10);
         const amps = meters.filter((m) => (m.src || '').toUpperCase().includes('AMP')
           && !/^(RL|DRV)$/i.test((m.name || '').trim()));
-        if (amps.length === 0) return null;
+        if (!viaFlex || amps.length === 0) return pgxlMeters();
         // Power comes from the radio's meter stream and nothing else. The
         // amplifier also reports a "peakfwd", and using it was a mistake twice
         // over: it is a latched maximum that is never reset, and it survives in

frontend/src/components/AppearancePanel.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import { GetRowColors, SaveRowColors } from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
+import { Checkbox } from '@/components/ui/checkbox';
+import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
+import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
+import type { RowColorSettings } from '@/lib/rowColors';
+
+// A fixed palette plus a free picker. Muted values on purpose: they are
+// composited at low opacity over a dark grid, where a saturated colour reads as
+// an error state rather than a status.
+const PALETTE = [
+  '#16a34a', '#0ea5e9', '#f59e0b', '#a855f7',
+  '#dc2626', '#14b8a6', '#eab308', '#ec4899',
+  '#64748b', '#84cc16', '#6366f1', '#f97316',
+];
+
+// The rule ids the backend orders; the labels live here so a translation never
+// travels through the settings row.
+const LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
+  confirmed_lotw: 'appr.confirmedLotw',
+  confirmed_paper: 'appr.confirmedPaper',
+  sent_waiting: 'appr.sentWaiting',
+  to_send: 'appr.toSend',
+};
+
+export function AppearancePanel() {
+  const { t } = useI18n();
+  const [cfg, setCfg] = useState<RowColorSettings | null>(null);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    (async () => {
+      try { setCfg((await GetRowColors()) as any); } catch { /* defaults on the backend */ }
+    })();
+  }, []);
+
+  const save = (next: RowColorSettings) => {
+    setCfg(next);
+    SaveRowColors(next as any).catch(() => {});
+  };
+  const patchRule = (id: string, patch: Partial<{ color: string; enabled: boolean }>) => {
+    if (!cfg) return;
+    save({ ...cfg, rules: cfg.rules.map((r) => (r.id === id ? { ...r, ...patch } : r)) });
+  };
+
+  if (!cfg) return <div className="p-1 text-sm text-muted-foreground">…</div>;
+
+  return (
+    <div className="space-y-4">
+      <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
+        <Checkbox checked={cfg.enabled} className="mt-0.5"
+          onCheckedChange={(c) => save({ ...cfg, enabled: !!c })} />
+        <span>{t('appr.enable')} <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('appr.enableHint')}</span></span>
+      </label>
+
+      {cfg.enabled && (
+        <div className="space-y-2">
+          {/* Order matters and is shown: a contact is usually several of these at
+              once, and the first match wins. */}
+          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('appr.orderHint')}</p>
+          {cfg.rules.map((r, i) => (
+            <div key={r.id} className="rounded-lg border border-border/60 p-2.5 space-y-2"
+              style={{ backgroundColor: r.enabled ? `color-mix(in srgb, ${r.color} 24%, transparent)` : undefined }}>
+              <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
+                <Checkbox checked={r.enabled} onCheckedChange={(c) => patchRule(r.id, { enabled: !!c })} />
+                <span className="font-mono text-xs text-muted-foreground">{i + 1}.</span>
+                <span className="font-medium">{t(LABELS[r.id] ?? r.id)}</span>
+              </label>
+              {r.enabled && (
+                <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 flex-wrap pl-6">
+                  {PALETTE.map((c) => (
+                    <button key={c} type="button" title={c}
+                      onClick={() => patchRule(r.id, { color: c })}
+                      className={cn('size-6 rounded-md border-2 transition-transform hover:scale-110',
+                        r.color.toLowerCase() === c ? 'border-foreground' : 'border-transparent')}
+                      style={{ backgroundColor: c }} />
+                  ))}
+                  <input type="color" value={r.color} title={t('appr.custom')}
+                    onChange={(e) => patchRule(r.id, { color: e.target.value })}
+                    className="size-6 rounded-md border border-border bg-transparent p-0 cursor-pointer" />
+                </div>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/AwardEditor.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
-import { Plus, Trash2, RotateCcw, Save, Download, Upload, Loader2, Search, FolderOpen, ArrowUpCircle } from 'lucide-react';
+import { Plus, Trash2, RotateCcw, Save, Download, Upload, Loader2, Search, FolderOpen, ArrowUpCircle, Share2 } from 'lucide-react';
 import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogHeader, DialogTitle, DialogFooter } from '@/components/ui/dialog';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import {
   ListCountries, DXCCForCountry, DXCCName,
   PopulateBuiltinReferences, HasBuiltinReferences,
   ExportAwards, ImportAwards, InspectAwardImport, ApplyAwardImport, GetCatalogCodes, OpenAwardsFolder,
-  ExportAwardForCatalog,
+  ExportAwardForCatalog, ExportAward,
   GetAwardUpdates, ApplyAwardUpdate, DismissAwardUpdate, ExplainAward,
 } from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
 
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ function Chips({ all, value, onToggle }: { all: string[]; value: string[]; onTog
   );
 }
 
+// Awards use a far-future date as "no end" (RDA carries 9999-12-31). Printing it
+// back at the operator reads like a real deadline, so show it as open-ended.
+function openEnded(d?: string): string {
+  if (!d) return '—';
+  return /^9\d{3}-/.test(d) ? '—' : d;
+}
+
 function Field2({ label, children }: { label: string; children: React.ReactNode }) {
   return (
     <div className="grid grid-cols-[120px_1fr] items-center gap-2">
@@ -307,6 +314,23 @@ export function AwardEditor({ open, onClose, onSaved }: Props) {
       if (p) setErr(t('awed.exportedTo', { path: p }));
     } catch (e: any) { setErr(String(e?.message ?? e)); }
   }
+  // Export the SELECTED award on its own — the unit you actually share. The
+  // bundle above is a backup: sending it to someone hands over your whole
+  // catalogue when they asked for one award.
+  //
+  // Distinct from the catalog publish below, which is for shipping an award INTO
+  // OpsLog: that one stamps a version and clears user_edited. This one is a plain
+  // share and leaves both alone, so the recipient's copy is correctly marked as
+  // someone else's work rather than as a pristine built-in.
+  async function exportOne() {
+    setErr('');
+    if (!cur) return;
+    try {
+      const code = cur.code.trim().toUpperCase();
+      const p = await ExportAward(code);
+      if (p) setErr(t('awed.exportedOneTo', { code, path: p }));
+    } catch (e: any) { setErr(String(e?.message ?? e)); }
+  }
   // Export the SELECTED award as a catalog-ready JSON, stamped with a version, to
   // paste over internal/award/catalog/<code>.json. A new release then ships it to
   // the whole team (unedited copies auto-upgrade; edited ones are offered it).
@@ -761,6 +785,7 @@ export function AwardEditor({ open, onClose, onSaved }: Props) {
                   <TabsContent value="refs" className="mt-0">
                     <ReferencesPanel
                       code={cur.code.trim().toUpperCase()} presets={presets} meta={meta[cur.code.toUpperCase()]}
+                      awardValidFrom={cur.valid_from} awardValidTo={cur.valid_to}
                       onUpdateOnline={() => updateList(cur.code.toUpperCase())} updating={updating === cur.code.toUpperCase()}
                       onChanged={loadMeta} setErr={setErr}
                     />
@@ -780,6 +805,14 @@ export function AwardEditor({ open, onClose, onSaved }: Props) {
           <Button variant="outline" onClick={exportAwards} title={t('awed.exportTitle')}>
             <Download className="size-3.5 mr-1" /> {t('awed.export')}
           </Button>
+          {/* Share just the selected one. Sitting next to the whole-catalogue
+              export because that is where an operator looks for it, and labelled
+              with the code so the two are never confused at a glance. */}
+          {cur && (
+            <Button variant="outline" onClick={exportOne} title={t('awed.exportOneTitle')}>
+              <Share2 className="size-3.5 mr-1" /> {t('awed.exportOne', { code: cur.code.trim().toUpperCase() })}
+            </Button>
+          )}
           <Button variant="outline" onClick={importAwards} title={t('awed.importTitle')}>
             <Upload className="size-3.5 mr-1" /> {t('awed.import')}
           </Button>
@@ -874,8 +907,8 @@ export function AwardEditor({ open, onClose, onSaved }: Props) {
 // ReferencesPanel — manage the reference list of one award: search/list on the
 // left, a per-reference editor on the right, plus bulk paste/CSV, presets and
 // the online updater (POTA/SOTA/WWFF).
-function ReferencesPanel({ code, presets, meta, onUpdateOnline, updating, onChanged, setErr }: {
-  code: string; presets: Preset[]; meta?: RefMeta;
+function ReferencesPanel({ code, presets, meta, awardValidFrom, awardValidTo, onUpdateOnline, updating, onChanged, setErr }: {
+  code: string; presets: Preset[]; meta?: RefMeta; awardValidFrom?: string; awardValidTo?: string;
   onUpdateOnline: () => void; updating: boolean; onChanged: () => void; setErr: (s: string) => void;
 }) {
   const { t } = useI18n();
@@ -1031,6 +1064,26 @@ function ReferencesPanel({ code, presets, meta, onUpdateOnline, updating, onChan
                   third-party list may carry the values — but they are not offered
                   for editing until something actually reads them. */}
               <Field2 label={t('awed.grid')}><Input className="h-8 font-mono" value={sel.gridsquare ?? ''} onChange={(e) => patchSel({ gridsquare: e.target.value })} /></Field2>
+              {/* This reference's own validity window. A reference is not forever:
+                  a park is delisted, a district merged. A QSO made while it
+                  existed still counts — it was a valid contact on the day — and
+                  one made afterwards does not.
+                  Left empty the award's own dates govern, which is why they show
+                  as the placeholder: the operator can see what "empty" inherits
+                  instead of having to remember. */}
+              <Field2 label={t('awed.refValidFrom')}>
+                <Input type="date" className="h-8 w-44" value={sel.valid_from ?? ''}
+                  onChange={(e) => patchSel({ valid_from: e.target.value })} />
+              </Field2>
+              <Field2 label={t('awed.refValidTo')}>
+                <Input type="date" className="h-8 w-44" value={sel.valid_to ?? ''}
+                  onChange={(e) => patchSel({ valid_to: e.target.value })} />
+              </Field2>
+              <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+                {(awardValidFrom || awardValidTo)
+                  ? t('awed.refValidHintAward', { from: openEnded(awardValidFrom), to: openEnded(awardValidTo) })
+                  : t('awed.refValidHint')}
+              </p>
               <div className="flex justify-end pt-1"><Button size="sm" className="h-7" onClick={() => sel && saveRef(sel)}><Save className="size-3.5 mr-1" /> {t('awed.saveReference')}</Button></div>
             </div>
           )}

frontend/src/components/DetailsPanel.tsx

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export interface DetailsState {
   srx_string?: string;
   stx_string?: string;
   email: string;
+  web?: string;
   // Award references for the contacted station (set via the Awards tab picker).
   // Semicolon-delimited "AWARD@REF" entries, e.g. "POTA@FR-11553;IOTA@EU-064".
   // App.tsx maps these back to pota_ref/sota_ref/iota when saving the QSO.
@@ -373,12 +374,16 @@ export function DetailsPanel({ callsign, prefix, operatorGrid, remoteGrid, qth,
               <Input value={details.address} onChange={(e) => onChange({ address: e.target.value })} />
             </Field>
           </div>
-          <Field label={t('detp.qslMessage')} span={7}>
-            <Input value={details.qsl_msg} onChange={(e) => onChange({ qsl_msg: e.target.value })} />
-          </Field>
-          <Field label={t('detp.qslVia')} span={5}>
+          {/* QSL via gets the room, not the message. Width should follow use, and
+              these two are nowhere near equal: a manager's callsign is filled in
+              constantly and a QSL message almost never. The message had 7 columns
+              of 12 for text most operators never type. */}
+          <Field label={t('detp.qslVia')} span={7}>
             <Input value={details.qsl_via} onChange={(e) => onChange({ qsl_via: e.target.value })} />
           </Field>
+          <Field label={t('detp.qslMessage')} span={5}>
+            <Input value={details.qsl_msg} onChange={(e) => onChange({ qsl_msg: e.target.value })} />
+          </Field>
         </div>
       )}
 
@@ -494,8 +499,14 @@ export function DetailsPanel({ callsign, prefix, operatorGrid, remoteGrid, qth,
           <Field label="STX">
             <Input value={details.stx_string ?? ''} placeholder={t('detp.sentExchangePh')} onChange={(e) => onChange({ stx_string: e.target.value })} />
           </Field>
-          <Field label={t('detp.contactedEmail')} span={3}>
-            <Input value={details.email} placeholder="[email protected]" onChange={(e) => onChange({ email: e.target.value })} />
+          {/* No placeholder: a greyed-out sample address in an empty field reads
+              as a value the lookup found, and that is exactly the field an
+              operator checks to see whether it found one. */}
+          <Field label={t('detp.contactedEmail')} span={2}>
+            <Input value={details.email} onChange={(e) => onChange({ email: e.target.value })} />
+          </Field>
+          <Field label={t('detp.contactedWeb')}>
+            <Input value={details.web ?? ''} onChange={(e) => onChange({ web: e.target.value })} />
           </Field>
         </div>
       )}

frontend/src/components/RecentQSOsGrid.tsx

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { Checkbox } from '@/components/ui/checkbox';
 import { loadLocal, loadRemote, saveState, seedLocal } from '@/lib/gridPrefs';
 import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
 import { gridToLatLon, pathBetweenLatLon } from '@/lib/maidenhead';
+import { rowStyleFor, type RowColorSettings } from '@/lib/rowColors';
 
 // Register every Community feature once. v32+ requires explicit registration;
 // AllCommunityModule keeps it simple and pulls in sort/filter/resize/reorder/
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ type Props = {
   // One column per defined award; the cell shows the reference this QSO counts
   // for (from row.award_refs[CODE], attached by the parent). Hidden by default.
   awardCols?: { code: string; name: string }[];
+  // Whole-row colouring by QSL / LoTW status (Settings → Appearance).
+  rowColors?: RowColorSettings | null;
 };
 
 const BASE_COLSTATE_KEY = 'hamlog.qsoColState.v2';
@@ -132,6 +135,10 @@ function qsoDistanceKm(d: any, myGrid?: string): number | undefined {
 
 export const makeColCatalog = (t: TFn, myGrid?: string): ColEntry[] => [
   // ── QSO basics ──
+  // Position in the log, oldest = 1. Filled by the backend over the WHOLE log,
+  // so it does not change when a filter narrows what is shown.
+  { group: 'QSO', label: t('rqg.c.number'), colId: 'number', headerName: t('rqg.h.number'), field: 'number' as any, width: 80, type: 'rightAligned', cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    comparator: (a, b) => (a ?? 0) - (b ?? 0) },
   { group: 'QSO', label: t('rqg.c.qso_date'),  colId: 'qso_date', headerName: t('rqg.c.qso_date'), field: 'qso_date' as any, width: 150, cellClass: 'font-mono', valueFormatter: (p) => fmtDateUTC(p.value), sort: 'desc', defaultVisible: true },
   { group: 'QSO', label: t('rqg.c.qso_date_off'),  colId: 'qso_date_off', headerName: t('rqg.c.qso_date_off'), field: 'qso_date_off' as any, width: 150, cellClass: 'font-mono', valueFormatter: (p) => fmtDateUTC(p.value) },
   { group: 'QSO', label: t('rqg.c.callsign'),  colId: 'callsign', headerName: t('rqg.c.callsign'), field: 'callsign' as any, width: 110, cellClass: 'font-mono font-semibold', defaultVisible: true },
@@ -299,7 +306,7 @@ const sanitizeAwardCols = (st: any[] | null | undefined): any[] =>
     return rest;
   });
 
-export function RecentQSOsGrid({ rows, myGrid, selectAllSignal, selectRowSignal, rowDragCall, passOrder, onGridApi, storageKey, onRowDoubleClicked, onRowClicked, onRowSelected, onRowSelectedQso, onUpdateFromCty, onUpdateFromQRZ, onUpdateFromClublog, onSendTo, onSendRecording, onSendEQSL, onBulkEdit, onExportSelected, onExportSelectedFields, onExportFiltered, onExportCabrilloSelected, onExportCabrilloFiltered, onDelete, onFilteredCountChange, awardCols }: Props) {
+export function RecentQSOsGrid({ rows, myGrid, selectAllSignal, selectRowSignal, rowDragCall, passOrder, onGridApi, storageKey, onRowDoubleClicked, onRowClicked, onRowSelected, onRowSelectedQso, onUpdateFromCty, onUpdateFromQRZ, onUpdateFromClublog, onSendTo, onSendRecording, onSendEQSL, onBulkEdit, onExportSelected, onExportSelectedFields, onExportFiltered, onExportCabrilloSelected, onExportCabrilloFiltered, onDelete, onFilteredCountChange, awardCols, rowColors }: Props) {
   const { t } = useI18n();
   const gridRef = useRef<any>(null);
   const [pickerOpen, setPickerOpen] = useState(false);
@@ -696,6 +703,7 @@ export function RecentQSOsGrid({ rows, myGrid, selectAllSignal, selectRowSignal,
             animateRows={false}
             suppressCellFocus
             getRowId={(p) => String((p.data as any).id)}
+            getRowStyle={(p) => rowStyleFor(p.data, rowColors ?? null)}
           />
         </div>
       </div>

frontend/src/components/SettingsModal.tsx

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import {
   GetADIFMonitor, SaveADIFMonitor, PickADIFMonitorFile,
   GetRelayAuto, SaveRelayAuto, GetStationDevices,
   GetAwardDefs, GetTrackedAwards, SaveTrackedAwards,
-  GetBandOpenSettings, SaveBandOpenSettings, GetPSKReporterStatus,
+  GetBandOpenSettings, SaveBandOpenSettings, GetPSKReporterStatus, GetChaseNewGrids, SetChaseNewGrids, GetGridCacheStatus,
 } from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
 import type { profile as profileModels } from '../../wailsjs/go/models';
 import type { LookupSettingsForm, StationSettingsForm, ListsSettingsForm, ModePresetForm } from '@/types';
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ import { getDateFormat, setDateFormat, type DateFormat } from '@/lib/dateFormat'
 import { useI18n, FlagGB, FlagFR, type Lang } from '@/lib/i18n';
 import { useTheme, CONCRETE_THEMES, type ThemeChoice } from '@/lib/theme';
 import { OperatingPanel } from '@/components/OperatingPanel';
+import { AppearancePanel } from '@/components/AppearancePanel';
 import { UDPIntegrationsPanel } from '@/components/UDPIntegrationsPanel';
 
 type LookupSettings = LookupSettingsForm;
@@ -176,6 +177,7 @@ interface Props {
    `disabled: true` greys them out and shows the "coming soon" placeholder. */
 type SectionId =
   | 'general'
+  | 'appearance'
   | 'email'
   | 'station'
   | 'profiles'
@@ -266,6 +268,7 @@ function buildTree(flexAvailable: boolean, t: (k: string) => string): TreeNode[]
   {
     kind: 'group', label: t('nav.software'), icon: Cog, defaultOpen: true, children: [
       { kind: 'item', label: t('sec.general'), id: 'general' },
+      { kind: 'item', label: t('sec.appearance'), id: 'appearance' },
       { kind: 'item', label: t('sec.email'), id: 'email' },
       { kind: 'item', label: t('sec.lookup'), id: 'lookup' },
       { kind: 'group', label: t('nav.lists'), icon: Database, defaultOpen: true, children: [
@@ -290,7 +293,7 @@ function buildTree(flexAvailable: boolean, t: (k: string) => string): TreeNode[]
 // Map section id → i18n key (breadcrumb / placeholders).
 const SECTION_KEY: Partial<Record<SectionId, string>> = {
   station: 'sec.station', profiles: 'sec.profiles', operating: 'sec.operating', confirmations: 'sec.confirmations',
-  'external-services': 'sec.external', lookup: 'sec.lookup', 'lists-bands': 'sec.bands', 'lists-modes': 'sec.modes',
+  'external-services': 'sec.external', appearance: 'sec.appearance', lookup: 'sec.lookup', 'lists-bands': 'sec.bands', 'lists-modes': 'sec.modes',
   cluster: 'sec.cluster', backup: 'sec.backup', database: 'sec.database', autostart: 'sec.autostart', udp: 'sec.udp',
   adifmon: 'sec.adifmon',
   webpublish: 'sec.webpublish',
@@ -689,6 +692,13 @@ const RELAY_BANDS = ['160m', '80m', '60m', '40m', '30m', '20m', '17m', '15m', '1
 // Bands a motorized HF/6 m antenna (Ultrabeam / SteppIR) can cover — the follow
 // filter is a subset of these. Must match motorBands in app.go, low → high.
 const MOTOR_BANDS = ['40m', '30m', '20m', '17m', '15m', '12m', '10m', '6m'];
+// Shown as placeholders only — the backend owns these values (motorBands in
+// app.go) and resolves what a band button actually commands. Duplicated here
+// purely so an empty box can say what leaving it empty will do.
+const MOTOR_BAND_DEFAULT_KHZ: Record<string, number> = {
+  '40m': 7100, '30m': 10125, '20m': 14150, '17m': 18110,
+  '15m': 21150, '12m': 24930, '10m': 28400, '6m': 50150,
+};
 const relayCountUI = (type: string) => (type === 'kmtronic' || type === 'denkovi' ? 8 : 5);
 
 // Live status + OPERATE/STANDBY toggle for ONE configured amplifier (by config
@@ -1250,8 +1260,8 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
   const [rotatorTest, setRotatorTest] = useState<{ ok: boolean; msg: string } | null>(null);
 
   // Motorized antenna (Ultrabeam TCP or SteppIR TCP/serial) settings.
-  const [ultrabeam, setUltrabeam] = useState<{ enabled: boolean; type: string; transport: string; host: string; port: number; com: string; baud: number; follow: boolean; step_khz: number; tx_inhibit: boolean; bands: string[]; freq_min_mhz: number; freq_max_mhz: number }>({
-    enabled: false, type: 'ultrabeam', transport: 'tcp', host: '', port: 23, com: '', baud: 9600, follow: false, step_khz: 50, tx_inhibit: false, bands: [], freq_min_mhz: 13, freq_max_mhz: 54,
+  const [ultrabeam, setUltrabeam] = useState<{ enabled: boolean; type: string; transport: string; host: string; port: number; com: string; baud: number; follow: boolean; step_khz: number; track_mode: string; band_freqs: Record<string, number>; tx_inhibit: boolean; bands: string[]; freq_min_mhz: number; freq_max_mhz: number }>({
+    enabled: false, type: 'ultrabeam', transport: 'tcp', host: '', port: 23, com: '', baud: 9600, follow: false, step_khz: 50, track_mode: 'step', band_freqs: {}, tx_inhibit: false, bands: [], freq_min_mhz: 13, freq_max_mhz: 54,
   });
   const [ubTesting, setUbTesting] = useState(false);
   const [ubTest, setUbTest] = useState<{ ok: boolean; msg: string } | null>(null);
@@ -1545,6 +1555,8 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
   // has side effects there — adding the RBN nodes, bringing the PSK Reporter
   // feed up or down — so the write has to go where those live.
   const [bandOpen, setBandOpen] = useState<any>({ enabled: false, bands: [], available: [] });
+  const [chaseGrids, setChaseGrids] = useState(false);
+  const [gridStat, setGridStat] = useState<any>(null);
   const [pskrStatus, setPskrStatus] = useState<any>(null);
   const saveBandOpen = async (next: any) => {
     setBandOpen(next);
@@ -1553,11 +1565,13 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
   useEffect(() => {
     (async () => {
       try { setBandOpen(await GetBandOpenSettings()); } catch { /* defaults stand */ }
+      try { setChaseGrids(await GetChaseNewGrids()); } catch { /* defaults stand */ }
     })();
     // Poll the feed while the panel is open: a live count is the only thing that
     // distinguishes "connected" from "connected and receiving nothing".
     const t = window.setInterval(async () => {
       try { setPskrStatus(await GetPSKReporterStatus()); } catch { /* ignore */ }
+      try { setGridStat(await GetGridCacheStatus()); } catch { /* ignore */ }
     }, 3000);
     return () => window.clearInterval(t);
   }, []);
@@ -3140,45 +3154,96 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
           <div className="border-t border-border/60 pt-3 space-y-2">
             <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
               <Checkbox checked={ultrabeam.follow} onCheckedChange={(c) => setUltrabeam((s) => ({ ...s, follow: !!c }))} />
-              Follow rig frequency (auto-tune the antenna)
+              {t('hw.motorFollow')}
             </label>
             {ultrabeam.follow && (
-              <div className="flex items-center gap-3 pl-6">
-                <Label className="text-sm">Re-tune step</Label>
-                <Select value={String(ultrabeam.step_khz)} onValueChange={(v) => setUltrabeam((s) => ({ ...s, step_khz: parseInt(v, 10) || 50 }))}>
-                  <SelectTrigger className="h-8 w-32"><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
-                  <SelectContent>
-                    <SelectItem value="25">25 kHz</SelectItem>
-                    <SelectItem value="50">50 kHz</SelectItem>
-                    <SelectItem value="100">100 kHz</SelectItem>
-                  </SelectContent>
-                </Select>
-                <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">re-tune only when the frequency moves this far</span>
+              <div className="space-y-2 pl-6">
+                <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
+                  <Label className="text-sm">{t('station.trackModeTip')}</Label>
+                  <Select value={ultrabeam.track_mode || 'step'} onValueChange={(v) => setUltrabeam((s) => ({ ...s, track_mode: v }))}>
+                    <SelectTrigger className="h-8 w-52"><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
+                    <SelectContent>
+                      <SelectItem value="always">{t('station.trackAlways')}</SelectItem>
+                      <SelectItem value="step">{t('station.trackStep')}</SelectItem>
+                      <SelectItem value="band">{t('station.trackBand')}</SelectItem>
+                    </SelectContent>
+                  </Select>
+                </div>
+                {/* The step is only a question in step mode — the other two modes
+                    have nothing to threshold. */}
+                {(ultrabeam.track_mode || 'step') === 'step' && (
+                  <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
+                    <Label className="text-sm">{t('hw.motorStep')}</Label>
+                    <Select value={String(ultrabeam.step_khz)} onValueChange={(v) => setUltrabeam((s) => ({ ...s, step_khz: parseInt(v, 10) || 50 }))}>
+                      <SelectTrigger className="h-8 w-32"><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
+                      <SelectContent>
+                        <SelectItem value="25">25 kHz</SelectItem>
+                        <SelectItem value="50">50 kHz</SelectItem>
+                        <SelectItem value="100">100 kHz</SelectItem>
+                      </SelectContent>
+                    </Select>
+                  </div>
+                )}
+                <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+                  {(ultrabeam.track_mode || 'step') === 'always' ? t('station.trackAlwaysTip')
+                    : (ultrabeam.track_mode || 'step') === 'band' ? t('station.trackBandTip')
+                      : t('station.trackStepTipMode')}
+                </p>
               </div>
             )}
           </div>
           {(isSteppir || ultrabeam.type === 'ultrabeam') && (
             <div className="border-t border-border/60 pt-3 space-y-2">
               <Label className="text-sm">{t('hw.motorBands')}</Label>
-              <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 flex-wrap">
+              {/* Band, and under it the frequency its button tunes to — the
+                  layout of the SteppIR controller's own Bands and Frequencies
+                  table, which is where operators expect to find this. The box
+                  only appears on a selected band: a tune frequency for a band the
+                  antenna is not allowed on is a setting with no effect. Left
+                  empty it shows the default as placeholder, so the field is
+                  self-documenting and clearing it is how you go back. */}
+              <div className="flex items-start gap-1.5 flex-wrap">
                 {MOTOR_BANDS.map((b) => {
                   const on = ultrabeam.bands.includes(b);
                   return (
-                    <button key={b} type="button"
-                      onClick={() => setUltrabeam((s) => ({
-                        ...s,
-                        bands: on ? s.bands.filter((x) => x !== b) : [...s.bands, b],
-                      }))}
-                      className={`h-8 min-w-[3rem] rounded-md border px-2 text-sm font-medium transition-colors ${
-                        on
-                          ? 'border-primary bg-primary/15 text-primary'
-                          : 'border-input bg-background text-muted-foreground hover:bg-muted'
-                      }`}>
-                      {b}
-                    </button>
+                    <div key={b} className="flex flex-col gap-1">
+                      <button type="button"
+                        onClick={() => setUltrabeam((s) => ({
+                          ...s,
+                          bands: on ? s.bands.filter((x) => x !== b) : [...s.bands, b],
+                        }))}
+                        className={`h-8 w-[4.5rem] rounded-md border px-2 text-sm font-medium transition-colors ${
+                          on
+                            ? 'border-primary bg-primary/15 text-primary'
+                            : 'border-input bg-background text-muted-foreground hover:bg-muted'
+                        }`}>
+                        {b}
+                      </button>
+                      {on && (
+                        <input
+                          type="text" inputMode="numeric"
+                          value={ultrabeam.band_freqs?.[b] ? String(ultrabeam.band_freqs[b]) : ''}
+                          placeholder={String(MOTOR_BAND_DEFAULT_KHZ[b] ?? '')}
+                          title={t('hw.motorBandFreqHint')}
+                          onChange={(e) => {
+                            // Keep only digits, and store nothing for an empty box
+                            // so it round-trips to "use the default" rather than
+                            // to a zero the backend would have to interpret.
+                            const digits = e.target.value.replace(/[^0-9]/g, '');
+                            setUltrabeam((s) => {
+                              const next = { ...(s.band_freqs || {}) };
+                              if (digits === '') delete next[b]; else next[b] = parseInt(digits, 10);
+                              return { ...s, band_freqs: next };
+                            });
+                          }}
+                          className="h-7 w-[4.5rem] rounded-md border border-input bg-background px-1.5 text-center text-xs font-mono outline-none focus:border-primary"
+                        />
+                      )}
+                    </div>
                   );
                 })}
               </div>
+              <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('hw.motorBandFreqHint')}</p>
             </div>
           )}
           <div className="border-t border-border/60 pt-3 space-y-1">
@@ -4169,6 +4234,23 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
               things set up once. A preferences dialog you reopen every ten minutes
               is a filter in the wrong place. */}
 
+          {/* Grid chasing. Here rather than in the filter panel because it is set
+              up once: it decides whether locators learnt from decodes are KEPT
+              across restarts, not what the list shows right now. */}
+          <div className="border-t border-border/60 pt-3 space-y-2">
+            <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
+              <Checkbox checked={chaseGrids} className="mt-0.5"
+                onCheckedChange={(c) => { setChaseGrids(!!c); SetChaseNewGrids(!!c).catch(() => {}); }} />
+              <span>{t('clu.chaseGrids')} <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('clu.chaseGridsHint')}</span></span>
+            </label>
+            {chaseGrids && (
+              <p className="pl-6 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+                {t('clu.chaseGridsStat', { n: gridStat?.known ?? 0, p: gridStat?.pending ?? 0 })}
+                {pskrStatus?.running ? ` · ${t('bo.feedUp', { n: pskrStatus.received ?? 0 })}` : ''}
+              </p>
+            )}
+          </div>
+
           {/* Band-opening watch. It lives HERE, with the cluster nodes, because
               switching it on adds two of them — the operator should see that
               happen where it happens rather than find nodes they did not add. */}
@@ -6084,6 +6166,7 @@ export function SettingsModal({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChan
   // Map sections to their content + icon (for placeholder).
   const PANELS: Record<SectionId, () => JSX.Element> = {
     general:        GeneralPanel,
+    appearance:     () => <AppearancePanel />,
     email:          EmailPanel,
     station:        StationPanel,
     profiles:       ProfilesPanel,

frontend/src/components/StationControlPanel.tsx

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ function RotatorWidget({ hd, refetch, centerLat, centerLon, bearing, t }: Rotato
   );
 }
 
-type AntStatus = { enabled: boolean; type: string; connected: boolean; direction: number; frequency: number; moving: boolean; elements: number[]; follow?: boolean; step_khz?: number; bands?: string[] };
+type AntStatus = { enabled: boolean; type: string; connected: boolean; direction: number; frequency: number; moving: boolean; elements: number[]; follow?: boolean; step_khz?: number; track_mode?: string; bands?: string[]; band_freqs?: Record<string, number> };
 
 // Where each band button points the antenna.
 //
@@ -241,7 +241,10 @@ function MotorAntennaWidget({ ant, refetch, t }: { ant: AntStatus; refetch: () =
           <div className="text-[10px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-muted-foreground mb-1">{t('station.bands')}</div>
           <div className="grid grid-cols-5 gap-1">
             {(ant.bands ?? []).map((b: string) => {
-              const khz = ANT_BAND_KHZ[b];
+              // Where this band tunes is resolved by the backend — the operator's
+              // per-band choice from Settings, or the default. ANT_BAND_KHZ is only
+              // the floor for a status poll that hasn't landed yet.
+              const khz = ant.band_freqs?.[b] || ANT_BAND_KHZ[b];
               if (!khz) return null;
               // "On this band" from the antenna's own frequency, not the rig's:
               // the widget must show where the ANTENNA is, which is the whole
@@ -277,23 +280,38 @@ function MotorAntennaWidget({ ant, refetch, t }: { ant: AntStatus; refetch: () =
 
         {/* Tracking. Here rather than only in Settings because it is an operating
             decision — off to park the antenna, on to resume — not something set
-            up once. The step only shows when tracking is on: a threshold for
-            something switched off is a question the operator cannot act on. */}
-        <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
-          <button type="button"
-            onClick={() => run(SetMotorFollow(!ant.follow, 0))}
-            className={cn('flex-1 rounded-md border py-1.5 text-xs font-semibold transition-colors',
-              ant.follow ? 'bg-success-muted text-success-muted-foreground border-success-border' : 'border-border hover:bg-muted')}>
-            {ant.follow ? t('station.trackOn') : t('station.trackOff')}
-          </button>
+            up once. Mode and step only show when tracking is on: settings for
+            something switched off are questions the operator cannot act on. And
+            the step only shows in step mode, where it is the one thing it means. */}
+        <div className="space-y-1.5">
+          <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
+            <button type="button"
+              onClick={() => run(SetMotorFollow(!ant.follow, 0, ''))}
+              className={cn('flex-1 rounded-md border py-1.5 text-xs font-semibold transition-colors',
+                ant.follow ? 'bg-success-muted text-success-muted-foreground border-success-border' : 'border-border hover:bg-muted')}>
+              {ant.follow ? t('station.trackOn') : t('station.trackOff')}
+            </button>
+            {ant.follow && (ant.track_mode || 'step') === 'step' && (
+              <select
+                value={String(ant.step_khz || 50)}
+                onChange={(e) => run(SetMotorFollow(true, parseInt(e.target.value, 10), ''))}
+                className="h-[30px] rounded-md border border-border bg-background px-1 text-xs font-mono"
+                title={t('station.trackStepTip')}
+              >
+                {[25, 50, 100].map((s) => <option key={s} value={s}>{s} kHz</option>)}
+              </select>
+            )}
+          </div>
           {ant.follow && (
             <select
-              value={String(ant.step_khz || 50)}
-              onChange={(e) => run(SetMotorFollow(true, parseInt(e.target.value, 10)))}
-              className="h-[30px] rounded-md border border-border bg-background px-1 text-xs font-mono"
-              title={t('station.trackStepTip')}
+              value={ant.track_mode || 'step'}
+              onChange={(e) => run(SetMotorFollow(true, 0, e.target.value))}
+              className="w-full h-[30px] rounded-md border border-border bg-background px-1.5 text-xs"
+              title={t('station.trackModeTip')}
             >
-              {[25, 50, 100].map((s) => <option key={s} value={s}>{s} kHz</option>)}
+              <option value="always" title={t('station.trackAlwaysTip')}>{t('station.trackAlways')}</option>
+              <option value="step" title={t('station.trackStepTipMode')}>{t('station.trackStep')}</option>
+              <option value="band" title={t('station.trackBandTip')}>{t('station.trackBand')}</option>
             </select>
           )}
         </div>

frontend/src/lib/rowColors.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// Row colouring for the log grid, by QSL / LoTW status.
+//
+// The rules are ORDERED and the first match wins: a contact is usually several
+// things at once, and one confirmed on LoTW and by card is confirmed, not
+// "sent, awaiting reply".
+
+export type RowColorRule = { id: string; color: string; enabled: boolean };
+export type RowColorSettings = { enabled: boolean; rules: RowColorRule[] };
+
+// ADIF QSL fields are single letters. Y is the only one that means "yes";
+// R (requested) and Q (queued) mean a card is owed, which is a different state
+// and the one an operator is looking for when deciding what to post.
+const yes = (v: any) => String(v ?? '').trim().toUpperCase() === 'Y';
+const owed = (v: any) => {
+  const s = String(v ?? '').trim().toUpperCase();
+  return s === 'R' || s === 'Q';
+};
+
+export function matchRowRule(q: any): string | null {
+  if (!q) return null;
+  if (yes(q.lotw_rcvd)) return 'confirmed_lotw';
+  if (yes(q.qsl_rcvd) || yes(q.eqsl_rcvd)) return 'confirmed_paper';
+  if (yes(q.qsl_sent) || yes(q.lotw_sent) || yes(q.eqsl_sent)) return 'sent_waiting';
+  // Any route still queued, not just the paper card. LoTW marks a pending upload
+  // as R, which is the commonest "not gone out yet" state in a digital log and
+  // was matching nothing at all while this only looked at qsl_sent.
+  if (owed(q.qsl_sent) || owed(q.lotw_sent) || owed(q.eqsl_sent)) return 'to_send';
+  return null;
+}
+
+// The colour is applied as a TINT, not a fill. The grid is dark and a solid
+// user-picked colour behind white text is unreadable at exactly the moment it
+// matters — Logger32 gets away with it because its grid is white.
+export function rowStyleFor(q: any, cfg: RowColorSettings | null): { backgroundColor: string } | undefined {
+  if (!cfg?.enabled) return undefined;
+  const id = matchRowRule(q);
+  if (!id) return undefined;
+  const rule = cfg.rules?.find((r) => r.id === id);
+  if (!rule?.enabled || !rule.color) return undefined;
+  return { backgroundColor: `color-mix(in srgb, ${rule.color} 24%, transparent)` };
+}

frontend/src/lib/spotDisplay.ts

@@ -13,7 +13,17 @@
 
 export type SpotDisplayOptions = { muteWorked: boolean; slotHighlight: boolean };
 
+// Both options are withdrawn from the filter panel for now. The machinery below
+// is deliberately kept whole — it is correct and hard-won — so putting the two
+// switches back is this one flag and the block they came from in App.tsx.
+//
+// The saved preferences are left untouched in localStorage rather than cleared:
+// an operator who had either turned on gets them back exactly as they were the
+// day the options return, instead of silently starting from off.
+export const SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED = false;
+
 export function readSpotDisplayOptions(): SpotDisplayOptions {
+  if (!SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED) return { muteWorked: false, slotHighlight: false };
   try {
     return {
       muteWorked: localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterMuteWorked') === '1',

frontend/src/version.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Single source of truth for the app version shown in the UI (header + About).
 // Bump this on a release (the release script updates it alongside telemetry.go).
-export const APP_VERSION = '0.24.6';
+export const APP_VERSION = '0.24.8';
 
 // Author / credits, shown in Help -> About.
 export const APP_AUTHOR = 'F4BPO';

frontend/wailsjs/go/main/App.d.ts

@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ export function GetCatalogCodes():Promise<Array<string>>;
 
 export function GetChangelog():Promise<Array<main.ChangelogEntry>>;
 
+export function GetChaseNewGrids():Promise<boolean>;
+
 export function GetChatHistory(arg1:number):Promise<Array<main.ChatMessage>>;
 
 export function GetClublogCtyInfo():Promise<main.ClublogCtyInfo>;
@@ -440,6 +442,8 @@ export function GetFlexBandPower():Promise<Record<string, main.FlexBandPower>>;
 
 export function GetFlexState():Promise<cat.FlexTXState>;
 
+export function GetGridCacheStatus():Promise<main.GridCacheStatus>;
+
 export function GetIcomState():Promise<cat.IcomTXState>;
 
 export function GetListsSettings():Promise<main.ListsSettings>;
@@ -488,6 +492,8 @@ export function GetRotatorHeading():Promise<main.RotatorHeading>;
 
 export function GetRotators():Promise<Array<main.RotatorDevice>>;
 
+export function GetRowColors():Promise<main.RowColorSettings>;
+
 export function GetSPEStatus():Promise<spe.Status>;
 
 export function GetScpStatus():Promise<main.ScpStatus>;
@@ -924,6 +930,8 @@ export function SaveRelayAuto(arg1:main.RelayAutoConfig):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SaveRotators(arg1:Array<main.RotatorDevice>):Promise<void>;
 
+export function SaveRowColors(arg1:main.RowColorSettings):Promise<void>;
+
 export function SaveSelfSpotSettings(arg1:main.SelfSpotSettings):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SaveStationDevices(arg1:Array<main.StationDevice>):Promise<void>;
@@ -970,6 +978,8 @@ export function SetCIVTrace(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetCWDecoderPitch(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
 
+export function SetChaseNewGrids(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
+
 export function SetClublogCtyEnabled(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetClublogMostWantedEnabled(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
@@ -982,7 +992,7 @@ export function SetDVKLabel(arg1:number,arg2:string):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetKenwoodKeySpeed(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
 
-export function SetMotorFollow(arg1:boolean,arg2:number):Promise<void>;
+export function SetMotorFollow(arg1:boolean,arg2:number,arg3:string):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetOpsLogQSLReceived(arg1:number,arg2:boolean):Promise<void>;
 

frontend/wailsjs/go/main/App.js

@@ -750,6 +750,10 @@ export function GetChangelog() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetChangelog']();
 }
 
+export function GetChaseNewGrids() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['GetChaseNewGrids']();
+}
+
 export function GetChatHistory(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetChatHistory'](arg1);
 }
@@ -822,6 +826,10 @@ export function GetFlexState() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetFlexState']();
 }
 
+export function GetGridCacheStatus() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['GetGridCacheStatus']();
+}
+
 export function GetIcomState() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetIcomState']();
 }
@@ -918,6 +926,10 @@ export function GetRotators() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetRotators']();
 }
 
+export function GetRowColors() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['GetRowColors']();
+}
+
 export function GetSPEStatus() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetSPEStatus']();
 }
@@ -1790,6 +1802,10 @@ export function SaveRotators(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SaveRotators'](arg1);
 }
 
+export function SaveRowColors(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SaveRowColors'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function SaveSelfSpotSettings(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SaveSelfSpotSettings'](arg1);
 }
@@ -1882,6 +1898,10 @@ export function SetCWDecoderPitch(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetCWDecoderPitch'](arg1);
 }
 
+export function SetChaseNewGrids(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetChaseNewGrids'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function SetClublogCtyEnabled(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetClublogCtyEnabled'](arg1);
 }
@@ -1906,8 +1926,8 @@ export function SetKenwoodKeySpeed(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodKeySpeed'](arg1);
 }
 
-export function SetMotorFollow(arg1, arg2) {
-  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetMotorFollow'](arg1, arg2);
+export function SetMotorFollow(arg1, arg2, arg3) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetMotorFollow'](arg1, arg2, arg3);
 }
 
 export function SetOpsLogQSLReceived(arg1, arg2) {

frontend/wailsjs/go/models.ts

@@ -1441,6 +1441,8 @@ export namespace lookup {
 	    cont?: string;
 	    email?: string;
 	    qsl_via?: string;
+	    web?: string;
+	    zip?: string;
 	    image_url?: string;
 	    source: string;
 	    // Go type: time
@@ -1468,6 +1470,8 @@ export namespace lookup {
 	        this.cont = source["cont"];
 	        this.email = source["email"];
 	        this.qsl_via = source["qsl_via"];
+	        this.web = source["web"];
+	        this.zip = source["zip"];
 	        this.image_url = source["image_url"];
 	        this.source = source["source"];
 	        this.fetched_at = this.convertValues(source["fetched_at"], null);
@@ -2419,6 +2423,22 @@ export namespace main {
 	        this.body = source["body"];
 	    }
 	}
+	export class GridCacheStatus {
+	    enabled: boolean;
+	    known: number;
+	    pending: number;
+	
+	    static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
+	        return new GridCacheStatus(source);
+	    }
+	
+	    constructor(source: any = {}) {
+	        if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
+	        this.enabled = source["enabled"];
+	        this.known = source["known"];
+	        this.pending = source["pending"];
+	    }
+	}
 	export class ModePreset {
 	    name: string;
 	    default_rst_sent?: string;
@@ -2972,6 +2992,54 @@ export namespace main {
 	        this.motorized = source["motorized"];
 	    }
 	}
+	export class RowColorRule {
+	    id: string;
+	    color: string;
+	    enabled: boolean;
+	
+	    static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
+	        return new RowColorRule(source);
+	    }
+	
+	    constructor(source: any = {}) {
+	        if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
+	        this.id = source["id"];
+	        this.color = source["color"];
+	        this.enabled = source["enabled"];
+	    }
+	}
+	export class RowColorSettings {
+	    enabled: boolean;
+	    rules: RowColorRule[];
+	
+	    static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
+	        return new RowColorSettings(source);
+	    }
+	
+	    constructor(source: any = {}) {
+	        if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
+	        this.enabled = source["enabled"];
+	        this.rules = this.convertValues(source["rules"], RowColorRule);
+	    }
+	
+		convertValues(a: any, classs: any, asMap: boolean = false): any {
+		    if (!a) {
+		        return a;
+		    }
+		    if (a.slice && a.map) {
+		        return (a as any[]).map(elem => this.convertValues(elem, classs));
+		    } else if ("object" === typeof a) {
+		        if (asMap) {
+		            for (const key of Object.keys(a)) {
+		                a[key] = new classs(a[key]);
+		            }
+		            return a;
+		        }
+		        return new classs(a);
+		    }
+		    return a;
+		}
+	}
 	export class ScpStatus {
 	    enabled: boolean;
 	    count: number;
@@ -3283,8 +3351,10 @@ export namespace main {
 	    baud: number;
 	    follow: boolean;
 	    step_khz: number;
+	    track_mode: string;
 	    tx_inhibit: boolean;
 	    bands: string[];
+	    band_freqs: Record<string, number>;
 	    freq_min_mhz: number;
 	    freq_max_mhz: number;
 	
@@ -3303,8 +3373,10 @@ export namespace main {
 	        this.baud = source["baud"];
 	        this.follow = source["follow"];
 	        this.step_khz = source["step_khz"];
+	        this.track_mode = source["track_mode"];
 	        this.tx_inhibit = source["tx_inhibit"];
 	        this.bands = source["bands"];
+	        this.band_freqs = source["band_freqs"];
 	        this.freq_min_mhz = source["freq_min_mhz"];
 	        this.freq_max_mhz = source["freq_max_mhz"];
 	    }
@@ -3320,7 +3392,9 @@ export namespace main {
 	    elements: number[];
 	    follow: boolean;
 	    step_khz: number;
+	    track_mode: string;
 	    bands: string[];
+	    band_freqs: Record<string, number>;
 	
 	    static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
 	        return new UltrabeamStatusInfo(source);
@@ -3338,7 +3412,9 @@ export namespace main {
 	        this.elements = source["elements"];
 	        this.follow = source["follow"];
 	        this.step_khz = source["step_khz"];
+	        this.track_mode = source["track_mode"];
 	        this.bands = source["bands"];
+	        this.band_freqs = source["band_freqs"];
 	    }
 	}
 	export class UpdateInfo {
@@ -4178,6 +4254,7 @@ export namespace qso {
 	}
 	export class QSO {
 	    id: number;
+	    number?: number;
 	    callsign: string;
 	    // Go type: time
 	    qso_date: any;
@@ -4318,6 +4395,7 @@ export namespace qso {
 	    constructor(source: any = {}) {
 	        if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
 	        this.id = source["id"];
+	        this.number = source["number"];
 	        this.callsign = source["callsign"];
 	        this.qso_date = this.convertValues(source["qso_date"], null);
 	        this.qso_date_off = this.convertValues(source["qso_date_off"], null);

internal/award/award.go

@@ -449,6 +449,34 @@ type RefMeta struct {
 	Pattern  string
 	re       *regexp.Regexp
 	Valid    bool
+	// Per-reference validity window, ISO "2006-01-02". A reference is not
+	// forever: a park is delisted, a county is merged, a castle loses its
+	// reference number. A QSO made while it existed still counts — it was a valid
+	// contact on the day — and one made after it stopped existing does not.
+	//
+	// Empty means "no window of its own", and the award's own ValidFrom/ValidTo
+	// then govern, as they already do for every QSO in the award (see inScope).
+	// That fallback is deliberately NOT duplicated here: two places enforcing the
+	// same dates is two places for them to disagree.
+	ValidFrom string
+	ValidTo   string
+}
+
+// activeOn reports whether the reference existed on the day of the QSO.
+//
+// Compared as ISO date strings rather than parsed times on purpose: the stored
+// values are "2025-08-01"-shaped and lexical order on that shape IS
+// chronological order, so this cannot fail on a malformed date the way a parse
+// can — a reference with a typo in its window keeps counting instead of silently
+// vanishing from an operator's totals.
+func (m RefMeta) activeOn(day string) bool {
+	if m.ValidFrom != "" && day < m.ValidFrom {
+		return false
+	}
+	if m.ValidTo != "" && day > m.ValidTo {
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
 }
 
 // NewRefList builds the engine's reference view from (code, meta) pairs.
@@ -956,11 +984,13 @@ func candidates(d *Def, re *regexp.Regexp, q *qso.QSO, rl refList, hasList bool)
 // describes is worse than no trace, because it is believed.
 func candidatesTrace(d *Def, re *regexp.Regexp, q *qso.QSO, rl refList, hasList bool, ex *Explanation) []string {
 	predefined := hasList && !d.Dynamic
+	// The day of the contact, for per-reference validity windows.
+	day := q.QSODate.Format("2006-01-02")
 
 	// run executes one rule and, when tracing, records it.
 	run := func(label, field, matchBy, pattern string, rex *regexp.Regexp, exact bool, leading, trailing, prefix string) []string {
 		raw := searchOne(field, matchBy, rex, exact, leading, trailing, prefix, q, rl, predefined)
-		kept := keepRefs(predefined, rl, raw)
+		kept := keepRefs(predefined, rl, raw, day)
 		if ex != nil {
 			s := Step{Rule: label, Field: field, MatchBy: matchBy, Exact: exact, Pattern: pattern,
 				FieldValue: strings.TrimSpace(stripAffix(fieldRaw(field, q), leading, trailing)),
@@ -974,7 +1004,7 @@ func candidatesTrace(d *Def, re *regexp.Regexp, q *qso.QSO, rl refList, hasList
 				if _, ok := keptSet[n]; ok {
 					continue
 				}
-				s.Rejected = append(s.Rejected, rejection(predefined, rl, n))
+				s.Rejected = append(s.Rejected, rejection(predefined, rl, n, day))
 			}
 			ex.Steps = append(ex.Steps, s)
 		}
@@ -1026,7 +1056,7 @@ func candidatesTrace(d *Def, re *regexp.Regexp, q *qso.QSO, rl refList, hasList
 	// hand. Applied HERE (not just in MatchQSO) so Compute — which powers the
 	// awards panel and the per-QSO refs editor — honours overrides too. For a
 	// predefined award the ref is still validated against the list below.
-	manual := keepRefs(predefined, rl, manualRefs(q, d.Code))
+	manual := keepRefs(predefined, rl, manualRefs(q, d.Code), day)
 	if ex != nil {
 		ex.Manual = manual
 	}
@@ -1065,7 +1095,7 @@ func candidatesTrace(d *Def, re *regexp.Regexp, q *qso.QSO, rl refList, hasList
 // become a reference. "Nothing matched" is the least useful thing a matcher can
 // say; every one of this week's award bugs was a rejection with a plain reason
 // that nothing was printing.
-func rejection(predefined bool, rl refList, code string) Rejected {
+func rejection(predefined bool, rl refList, code, day string) Rejected {
 	switch {
 	case code == "":
 		return Rejected{Candidate: code, Reason: "empty"}
@@ -1076,6 +1106,17 @@ func rejection(predefined bool, rl refList, code string) Rejected {
 	if !ok {
 		return Rejected{Candidate: code, Reason: "not in the award's reference list"}
 	}
+	// Spell the dates out. "Did not count" on a contact the operator remembers
+	// making is exactly the moment they need to be told it is the REFERENCE that
+	// has a window, not their log that is wrong.
+	if !m.activeOn(day) {
+		switch {
+		case m.ValidTo != "" && day > m.ValidTo:
+			return Rejected{Candidate: code, Reason: fmt.Sprintf("the reference ceased to exist on %s, after this QSO of %s", m.ValidTo, day)}
+		default:
+			return Rejected{Candidate: code, Reason: fmt.Sprintf("the reference did not exist until %s, after this QSO of %s", m.ValidFrom, day)}
+		}
+	}
 	if !m.Valid {
 		return Rejected{Candidate: code, Reason: "listed but disabled"}
 	}
@@ -1088,7 +1129,7 @@ func rejection(predefined bool, rl refList, code string) Rejected {
 // so we do NOT additionally require the QSO's entity to match the reference's own
 // DXCC — that wrongly excluded e.g. WAS Alaska (state AK is DXCC entity 6, not
 // 291). Per-reference DXCC stays metadata for the picker.
-func keepRefs(predefined bool, rl refList, found []string) []string {
+func keepRefs(predefined bool, rl refList, found []string, day string) []string {
 	if !predefined {
 		out := make([]string, 0, len(found))
 		for _, c := range found {
@@ -1106,6 +1147,10 @@ func keepRefs(predefined bool, rl refList, found []string) []string {
 		if !ok || !m.Valid {
 			continue
 		}
+		// The reference has to have existed on the day of the contact.
+		if !m.activeOn(day) {
+			continue
+		}
 		if _, dup := seen[c]; dup {
 			continue
 		}

internal/award/refvalidity_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package award
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/qso"
+)
+
+func day(s string) time.Time {
+	t, err := time.Parse("2006-01-02", s)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return t
+}
+
+// A reference is not forever. A park is delisted, a district is merged, a castle
+// loses its number. A contact made while it existed still counts — it was a
+// valid contact on the day — and one made after it stopped existing does not.
+func TestRefValidityWindow(t *testing.T) {
+	m := RefMeta{Code: "KL-01", Valid: true, ValidTo: "2025-08-31"}
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		day  string
+		want bool
+	}{
+		{"2019-01-01", true},
+		{"2025-08-31", true}, // the last day it existed still counts
+		{"2025-09-01", false},
+		{"2026-08-12", false},
+	} {
+		if got := m.activeOn(tc.day); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("KL-01 on %s: active=%v, want %v", tc.day, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// A reference that only came into being partway through.
+	n := RefMeta{Code: "KL-99", Valid: true, ValidFrom: "2025-01-15"}
+	if n.activeOn("2025-01-14") {
+		t.Error("counted a QSO from before the reference existed")
+	}
+	if !n.activeOn("2025-01-15") {
+		t.Error("the first day it existed must count")
+	}
+
+	// No window of its own: the award's own dates govern, as they already do for
+	// every QSO in the award. Nothing here may narrow that.
+	if !(RefMeta{Code: "X", Valid: true}).activeOn("1970-01-01") {
+		t.Error("a reference with no window must count on any date")
+	}
+}
+
+// The whole point: the same QSO counts before the cutoff and does not after.
+func TestExpiredRefStopsCountingForLaterQSOs(t *testing.T) {
+	d := &Def{
+		Code: "RDA", Name: "Russian District Award", Valid: true,
+		Type: TypeQSOFields, Field: "note", MatchBy: "code",
+		Confirm: []string{"lotw"},
+	}
+	metas := []RefMeta{
+		{Code: "KL-01", Name: "Petrozavodsk", Valid: true, ValidTo: "2025-08-31"},
+		{Code: "KL-04", Name: "Kostomuksha", Valid: true},
+	}
+
+	q := func(ref, on string) *qso.QSO {
+		return &qso.QSO{Callsign: "RA1ABC", Band: "20m", Notes: ref, QSODate: day(on)}
+	}
+
+	if got := MatchQSO(*d, metas, q("KL-01", "2025-06-01")); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "KL-01" {
+		t.Errorf("a QSO made while KL-01 existed must count: got %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := MatchQSO(*d, metas, q("KL-01", "2025-09-15")); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a QSO made after KL-01 ceased to exist must not count: got %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := MatchQSO(*d, metas, q("KL-04", "2025-09-15")); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "KL-04" {
+		t.Errorf("a reference with no window is unaffected: got %v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// The claim that an empty per-reference window "inherits the award's" has to be
+// a fact about the code, not a comment. Compute and MatchQSO both gate on
+// inScope, which enforces the award's own dates — so a reference with no window
+// of its own is already bounded by them, and duplicating the check per reference
+// would only create a second place for the same dates to disagree.
+func TestEmptyRefWindowInheritsTheAward(t *testing.T) {
+	d := Def{
+		Code: "RDA", Name: "Russian District Award", Valid: true,
+		Type: TypeQSOFields, Field: "note", MatchBy: "code",
+		Confirm:   []string{"lotw"},
+		ValidFrom: "1991-06-12", // the award itself starts here
+	}
+	metas := []RefMeta{{Code: "KL-04", Name: "Kostomuksha", Valid: true}} // no window of its own
+
+	q := func(on string) *qso.QSO {
+		return &qso.QSO{Callsign: "RA1ABC", Band: "20m", Notes: "KL-04", QSODate: day(on)}
+	}
+	if got := MatchQSO(d, metas, q("1991-06-11")); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a QSO before the AWARD's start counted for a reference with no window of its own: %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := MatchQSO(d, metas, q("1991-06-12")); len(got) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("a QSO on the award's first day must count: %v", got)
+	}
+
+	// And a reference window NARROWER than the award's still applies on top.
+	metas[0].ValidTo = "2025-08-31"
+	if got := MatchQSO(d, metas, q("2025-09-01")); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the reference's own end date was ignored: %v", got)
+	}
+}

internal/bandopen/bandopen.go

@@ -81,6 +81,28 @@ var watched = map[string]bool{"10m": true, "6m": true, "4m": true, "2m": true}
 // Watched reports whether a band is one the detector looks at.
 func Watched(band string) bool { return watched[strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band))] }
 
+// maxTerrestrialKm is the longest path a band can carry through the atmosphere.
+// Zero means no limit.
+//
+// The flat 2400 km ceiling was removed because it threw away real multi-hop Es
+// on 6 m, and that was right — but "no limit anywhere" then let something else
+// through. A 2 m opening was announced at 9650 km towards Japan, on stations
+// that were unmistakably working EME: the moon is not an opening, and pointing
+// an antenna at that bearing would find nothing.
+//
+// So the limit is per band, and it is physics rather than a threshold. Two
+// metres reaches a few thousand kilometres by tropospheric duct or a chain of Es
+// clouds and no further; beyond that the path went via the moon or a satellite,
+// neither of which says anything about the band. Six and ten metres have no
+// ceiling at all — multi-hop Es and F2 genuinely go round the world.
+var maxTerrestrialKm = map[string]int{
+	"2m": 3500,
+	"4m": 4000,
+}
+
+// MaxKmFor returns the plausibility ceiling for a band, 0 for none.
+func MaxKmFor(band string) int { return maxTerrestrialKm[strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band))] }
+
 // Opening is a detected opening, ready to be announced.
 type Opening struct {
 	Band       string `json:"band"`
@@ -130,6 +152,12 @@ func (d *Detector) Add(s Spot, lat float64) *Opening {
 	if s.DistKm < d.cfg.MinKm || (d.cfg.MaxKm > 0 && s.DistKm > d.cfg.MaxKm) {
 		return nil
 	}
+	// Past what the atmosphere can carry on this band, the path went via the moon
+	// or a satellite. Those are real contacts and real reports; they are simply
+	// not evidence about the band.
+	if m := MaxKmFor(band); m > 0 && s.DistKm > m {
+		return nil
+	}
 	d.recent = append(d.recent, s)
 	d.prune(s.At)
 

internal/bandopen/eme_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package bandopen
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// A 2 m "opening" was announced at 9650 km towards Japan on stations that were
+// plainly working EME. The moon is not an opening: an operator pointing an
+// antenna at that bearing finds nothing.
+func TestEMEIsNotAnOpeningOnTwoMetres(t *testing.T) {
+	d := New(DefaultConfig())
+	base := time.Date(2026, 8, 12, 6, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	for i, call := range []string{"7M4RRM", "JA7RPC", "JF1AWC", "JK1TPA", "JH1JCQ"} {
+		if op := d.Add(Spot{
+			Call: call, Band: "2m", DistKm: 9650, Bearing: 40 + i*3,
+			At: base.Add(time.Duration(i) * time.Minute),
+		}, 47.0); op != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("a 9650 km 2 m path was announced as an opening: %+v", op)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// But a real 2 m opening — an Es chain at a plausible distance — must survive.
+func TestLongButPlausibleTwoMetresStillCounts(t *testing.T) {
+	d := New(DefaultConfig())
+	base := time.Date(2026, 6, 20, 18, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	var got *Opening
+	for i, call := range []string{"EA1AA", "CT1BB", "EA7CC", "CT7DD"} {
+		if op := d.Add(Spot{
+			Call: call, Band: "2m", DistKm: 2000 + i*30, Bearing: 200 + i*4,
+			At: base.Add(time.Duration(i) * time.Minute),
+		}, 47.0); op != nil {
+			got = op
+		}
+	}
+	if got == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a 2000 km 2 m burst in one sector was not reported")
+	}
+}
+
+// Six metres keeps no ceiling: multi-hop Es genuinely goes that far, which is
+// why the flat limit was removed in the first place.
+func TestSixMetresHasNoCeiling(t *testing.T) {
+	if MaxKmFor("6m") != 0 || MaxKmFor("10m") != 0 {
+		t.Error("6 m and 10 m must have no distance ceiling")
+	}
+	if MaxKmFor("2m") == 0 {
+		t.Error("2 m must have one")
+	}
+}

internal/cat/kenwood.go

@@ -440,7 +440,31 @@ func (k *Kenwood) SetFrequency(hz int64) error {
 	if k.curVFO == "B" {
 		cmd = "FB"
 	}
-	return k.write(fmt.Sprintf("%s%011d;", cmd, hz))
+	if err := k.write(fmt.Sprintf("%s%011d;", cmd, hz)); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	// Remember what we just commanded.
+	//
+	// While PTT is held the poll is skipped and State() hands back lastState — the
+	// rig answers "?;" to IF; mid-transmission, and reading that as a fault used
+	// to drop the whole link. But a frequency SET during that window then went
+	// unrecorded, so the cache kept describing the dial as it was before.
+	//
+	// WSJT-X's "Fake It" is exactly that sequence: move the dial, key, transmit,
+	// and afterwards put it back. Polling during the over, it was told the rig was
+	// still on the receive frequency — so there was nothing to put back, and the
+	// dial stayed on the transmit frequency for good. Every following over
+	// started from there, which is the drift that was reported.
+	//
+	// Only simplex is updated here. Under split, FreqHz means the transmit
+	// frequency while this write lands on whichever VFO the operator is on, and
+	// guessing which side moved would be worse than a stale value the next poll
+	// corrects on its own.
+	if !k.lastState.Split {
+		k.curFreq = hz
+		k.lastState.FreqHz = hz
+	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (k *Kenwood) SetMode(mode string) error {

internal/cat/kenwood_fakeit_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+package cat
+
+import "testing"
+
+// WSJT-X "Fake It" against the transmit-window cache.
+//
+// Fake It keeps the radio on one dial frequency and shifts it only for the
+// duration of each over: set the transmit frequency, key, transmit, unkey, set
+// it back. The restore is not unconditional — WSJT-X reads the frequency back
+// and puts the dial where it believes it should be.
+//
+// That read lands inside the window where this backend deliberately stops
+// polling, because a Kenwood answers "?;" to IF; while it is transmitting and
+// treating that as a fault used to drop the whole shared link. The cache
+// answers instead. So the cache has to account for frequency SETS made during
+// the window, or it describes the dial as it was before the over — and WSJT-X,
+// told the radio is already on the receive frequency, has nothing to restore.
+//
+// This reproduces the sequence from a reported session: the dial stayed on the
+// transmit frequency after the first over and every later one started there.
+func TestKenwoodFakeItRestoresAfterTransmit(t *testing.T) {
+	const (
+		rxHz = 7074000 // where the operator is listening
+		txHz = 7075500 // where Fake It moves the dial to transmit
+	)
+
+	rig := &ts2000{vfoA: rxHz, mode: '2'}
+	k := NewKenwood("COM-TEST", 9600, "FT8")
+	k.dialPort = dialTo(rig)
+	if err := k.Connect(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("connect: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer k.Disconnect()
+
+	if s, err := k.ReadState(); err != nil || s.FreqHz != rxHz {
+		t.Fatalf("before the over: %d (err %v) — want %d", s.FreqHz, err, rxHz)
+	}
+
+	// The over: shift the dial, then key.
+	if err := k.SetFrequency(txHz); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set transmit frequency: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := k.SetPTT(true); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ptt on: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// WSJT-X reads back mid-over. The wire is not polled here — this is the
+	// cache talking, and it must not still be saying rxHz.
+	s, err := k.ReadState()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read during the over: %v", err)
+	}
+	if s.FreqHz != txHz {
+		t.Errorf("during the over the backend reported %d, want %d — "+
+			"reporting the pre-over frequency is what stops Fake It restoring the dial", s.FreqHz, txHz)
+	}
+
+	if err := k.SetPTT(false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ptt off: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// The restore, once the over is done.
+	if err := k.SetFrequency(rxHz); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("restore: %v", err)
+	}
+	if rig.vfoA != rxHz {
+		t.Errorf("dial left on %d after the over, want %d", rig.vfoA, rxHz)
+	}
+	if s, err := k.ReadState(); err != nil || s.FreqHz != rxHz {
+		t.Errorf("after the over: %d (err %v) — want %d", s.FreqHz, err, rxHz)
+	}
+}
+
+// Under split the same write must NOT touch the cache: FreqHz means the
+// transmit frequency while the write lands on whichever VFO the operator is on,
+// so guessing which side moved would put a wrong number in front of the
+// operator. A stale one survives only until the next poll.
+func TestKenwoodSplitCacheLeftToThePoll(t *testing.T) {
+	rig := &ts2000{vfoA: 14025000, vfoB: 14030000, mode: '3', split: true}
+	k := NewKenwood("COM-TEST", 9600, "CW")
+	k.dialPort = dialTo(rig)
+	if err := k.Connect(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("connect: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer k.Disconnect()
+
+	s, err := k.ReadState()
+	if err != nil || !s.Split {
+		t.Fatalf("split not seen: %+v (err %v)", s, err)
+	}
+	before := s.FreqHz
+
+	if err := k.SetFrequency(14026000); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set: %v", err)
+	}
+	if k.lastState.FreqHz != before {
+		t.Errorf("split cache moved to %d on a VFO write, want it left at %d for the poll",
+			k.lastState.FreqHz, before)
+	}
+}

internal/db/migrations/0026_lookup_web_zip.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+-- The lookup cache gains the two fields the providers were already sending and
+-- nothing was reading: the operator's own site, and the postal code.
+--
+-- `web` matters beyond the cache: the qso table has had a `web` column since
+-- 0003 and no lookup ever filled it.
+ALTER TABLE callsign_cache ADD COLUMN web TEXT;
+ALTER TABLE callsign_cache ADD COLUMN zip TEXT;

internal/geo/geo.go

@@ -67,3 +67,54 @@ func DistanceBetweenGrids(a, b string) (km float64, ok bool) {
 	}
 	return HaversineKm(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2), true
 }
+
+// LatLonToGrid returns the 4-character Maidenhead square for a position.
+func LatLonToGrid(lat, lon float64) string {
+	lon = math.Mod(lon+180, 360)
+	if lon < 0 {
+		lon += 360
+	}
+	lat = lat + 90
+	if lat < 0 {
+		lat = 0
+	} else if lat > 180 {
+		lat = 180
+	}
+	return string([]byte{
+		byte('A' + int(lon/20)),
+		byte('A' + int(lat/10)),
+		byte('0' + int(math.Mod(lon, 20)/2)),
+		byte('0' + int(math.Mod(lat, 10)/1)),
+	})
+}
+
+// NeighbourGrids returns the square holding (lat, lon) and the ring of squares
+// around it — 9 squares for ring 1, 25 for ring 2.
+//
+// Used to filter the PSK Reporter feed at the BROKER rather than in OpsLog. A
+// square is about 111 km tall and 150 km wide at mid latitudes, so one ring is
+// roughly the 300 km "around here" the feed already meant, and the traffic that
+// used to be received and discarded is never sent.
+func NeighbourGrids(lat, lon float64, ring int) []string {
+	if ring < 0 {
+		ring = 0
+	}
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	out := []string{}
+	for dLat := -ring; dLat <= ring; dLat++ {
+		for dLon := -ring; dLon <= ring; dLon++ {
+			// One square step: 1° of latitude, 2° of longitude.
+			la := lat + float64(dLat)
+			lo := lon + float64(dLon)*2
+			if la > 90 || la < -90 {
+				continue // past a pole there is no square, not a wrapped one
+			}
+			g := LatLonToGrid(la, lo)
+			if !seen[g] {
+				seen[g] = true
+				out = append(out, g)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}

internal/geo/neighbour_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package geo
+
+import "testing"
+
+// The squares the PSK Reporter feed is filtered on. A wrong ring means either
+// receiving the world again or hearing nothing.
+func TestNeighbourGrids(t *testing.T) {
+	// JN36 is around 46.5N 5.5E.
+	lat, lon, ok := GridToLatLon("JN36")
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("JN36 did not resolve")
+	}
+	if got := LatLonToGrid(lat, lon); got != "JN36" {
+		t.Fatalf("round trip gave %q, want JN36", got)
+	}
+
+	ring := NeighbourGrids(lat, lon, 1)
+	if len(ring) != 9 {
+		t.Errorf("ring 1 has %d squares, want 9: %v", len(ring), ring)
+	}
+	found := false
+	for _, g := range ring {
+		if g == "JN36" {
+			found = true
+		}
+		if len(g) != 4 {
+			t.Errorf("not a 4-character square: %q", g)
+		}
+	}
+	if !found {
+		t.Errorf("the operator's own square is missing from %v", ring)
+	}
+	if n := len(NeighbourGrids(lat, lon, 0)); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("ring 0 has %d squares, want just the operator's", n)
+	}
+	if n := len(NeighbourGrids(lat, lon, 2)); n != 25 {
+		t.Errorf("ring 2 has %d squares, want 25", n)
+	}
+}
+
+// Near a pole a step north has nowhere to go; it must be dropped, not wrapped
+// onto a square on the far side of the world.
+func TestNeighbourGridsNearThePole(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, g := range NeighbourGrids(89.5, 25, 1) {
+		if len(g) != 4 {
+			t.Errorf("bad square near the pole: %q", g)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/gridcache/gridcache.go

@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+// Package gridcache is the long-term callsign→grid store behind grid chasing.
+//
+// Its own SQLite file, not a table in the settings database: that one sits
+// wherever the operator put it, often a synchronised folder, and this rewrites
+// itself every minute. Deleting the file costs a few days of listening.
+//
+// A callsign has one grid and the newest report wins — a stale locator reads as
+// a square already worked, which is worse than none.
+package gridcache
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	_ "modernc.org/sqlite"
+)
+
+// Retention bounds a store that would otherwise only ever grow. Two years is
+// chosen to be far longer than any propagation interest and short enough that a
+// reassigned callsign eventually stops carrying its previous holder's square —
+// the one way this cache can be actively wrong rather than merely empty.
+const Retention = 2 * 365 * 24 * time.Hour
+
+// FlushEvery is the batch interval. Long enough that a burst of reports costs
+// one transaction, short enough that a crash loses a minute of learning.
+const FlushEvery = 60 * time.Second
+
+// Sources a locator can come from.
+const (
+	SourceDecode = "decode" // a CQ this station's own receiver decoded
+	SourceMQTT   = "mqtt"   // a PSK Reporter report
+)
+
+// Entry is one locator and where it came from.
+type Entry struct {
+	Grid   string
+	Source string
+}
+
+type Store struct {
+	db *sql.DB
+
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	dirty map[string]Entry // call → what to write
+
+	stop     chan struct{}
+	stopOnce sync.Once
+	wg       sync.WaitGroup
+
+	logf func(string, ...any)
+}
+
+// Open creates or opens the store at path and prunes what has aged out.
+func Open(path string, logf func(string, ...any)) (*Store, error) {
+	if logf == nil {
+		logf = func(string, ...any) {}
+	}
+	// WAL so a flush never blocks a read, and a busy timeout because the flush
+	// goroutine and the startup load can overlap on a slow disk.
+	db, err := sql.Open("sqlite", path+"?_pragma=journal_mode(WAL)&_pragma=busy_timeout(5000)")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("gridcache: open %s: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := db.Exec("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS grids (" +
+		"call TEXT PRIMARY KEY, grid TEXT NOT NULL, updated_at INTEGER NOT NULL, " +
+		"source TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '')"); err != nil {
+		db.Close()
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("gridcache: schema: %w", err)
+	}
+	// A file written before the column existed keeps its rows; this fails
+	// harmlessly when the column is already there.
+	db.Exec("ALTER TABLE grids ADD COLUMN source TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ''")
+	s := &Store{db: db, dirty: map[string]Entry{}, stop: make(chan struct{}), logf: logf}
+	if n, err := s.prune(); err != nil {
+		s.logf("gridcache: prune failed: %v", err)
+	} else if n > 0 {
+		s.logf("gridcache: pruned %d locators not heard in %d days", n, int(Retention.Hours()/24))
+	}
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+func (s *Store) prune() (int64, error) {
+	cut := time.Now().Add(-Retention).Unix()
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`DELETE FROM grids WHERE updated_at < ?`, cut)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return res.RowsAffected()
+}
+
+// LoadAll returns every stored locator, for seeding the in-memory map at
+// startup. One query and one map build — the point of the whole package is that
+// nothing afterwards has to ask the database anything.
+func (s *Store) LoadAll() (map[string]string, error) {
+	rows, err := s.db.Query(`SELECT call, grid FROM grids`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("gridcache: load: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	out := make(map[string]string, 4096)
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var call, grid string
+		if err := rows.Scan(&call, &grid); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out[call] = grid
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// Put queues a locator for writing. Callers pass only what CHANGED — an
+// unchanged report is the common case by a wide margin and must not reach here,
+// or the batch would carry the whole feed instead of the news in it.
+func (s *Store) Put(call, grid, source string) {
+	call = strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(call))
+	grid = strings.TrimSpace(grid)
+	if call == "" || grid == "" {
+		return
+	}
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.dirty[call] = Entry{Grid: grid, Source: source}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// Start runs the flush loop until Close.
+func (s *Store) Start(ctx context.Context) {
+	s.wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer s.wg.Done()
+		t := time.NewTicker(FlushEvery)
+		defer t.Stop()
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-s.stop:
+				return
+			case <-ctx.Done():
+				return
+			case <-t.C:
+				if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+					s.logf("gridcache: flush failed: %v", err)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+// Flush writes the pending batch in one transaction. Safe to call with nothing
+// pending, which is most of the time on a quiet band.
+func (s *Store) Flush() error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	if len(s.dirty) == 0 {
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	}
+	batch := s.dirty
+	s.dirty = map[string]Entry{}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+
+	tx, err := s.db.Begin()
+	if err != nil {
+		s.requeue(batch)
+		return err
+	}
+	st, err := tx.Prepare(`INSERT INTO grids (call, grid, updated_at, source) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
+		ON CONFLICT(call) DO UPDATE SET grid = excluded.grid, updated_at = excluded.updated_at,
+		source = excluded.source`)
+	if err != nil {
+		tx.Rollback()
+		s.requeue(batch)
+		return err
+	}
+	defer st.Close()
+	now := time.Now().Unix()
+	for call, e := range batch {
+		if _, err := st.Exec(call, e.Grid, now, e.Source); err != nil {
+			tx.Rollback()
+			s.requeue(batch)
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	if err := tx.Commit(); err != nil {
+		s.requeue(batch)
+		return err
+	}
+	// Logged because a batch that never reaches the disk looks exactly like one
+	// that does: the locators are in memory either way until the next restart,
+	// which is the one moment the difference shows.
+	s.logf("gridcache: wrote %d locators", len(batch))
+	return nil
+}
+
+// requeue puts a failed batch back, without overwriting anything learnt while it
+// was in flight — the newer value is the right one.
+func (s *Store) requeue(batch map[string]Entry) {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	for call, e := range batch {
+		if _, newer := s.dirty[call]; !newer {
+			s.dirty[call] = e
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Pending reports how many locators are waiting to be written.
+func (s *Store) Pending() int {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	return len(s.dirty)
+}
+
+// Close stops the loop and writes whatever is pending. A restart is the moment
+// the cache is most valuable, so losing the last minute of learning to a clean
+// shutdown would be a poor trade.
+func (s *Store) Close() error {
+	s.stopOnce.Do(func() { close(s.stop) })
+	s.wg.Wait()
+	err := s.Flush()
+	if cerr := s.db.Close(); err == nil {
+		err = cerr
+	}
+	return err
+}

internal/gridcache/gridcache_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+package gridcache
+
+import (
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func open(t *testing.T) (*Store, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "grids.db")
+	s, err := Open(path, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("open: %v", err)
+	}
+	return s, path
+}
+
+// The whole reason the store exists: what was learnt is still there after a
+// restart, so the cluster's locator column is full in the first second instead
+// of after an hour of listening.
+func TestSurvivesRestart(t *testing.T) {
+	s, path := open(t)
+	s.Put("F4BPO", "JN36", SourceDecode)
+	s.Put("OH5CX", "KP30", SourceDecode)
+	if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("flush: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := s.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("close: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	again, err := Open(path, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reopen: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer again.Close()
+	got, err := again.LoadAll()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("load: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got["F4BPO"] != "JN36" || got["OH5CX"] != "KP30" {
+		t.Errorf("locators lost across a restart: %v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A callsign has ONE grid and the newest report wins. Operators move, go
+// portable, go on expedition — and a stale locator is worse than none for grid
+// chasing, because it reads as a square already worked.
+func TestNewestReportWins(t *testing.T) {
+	s, _ := open(t)
+	defer s.Close()
+
+	s.Put("F4BPO", "JN36", SourceDecode)
+	if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s.Put("F4BPO", "KP30", SourceDecode) // moved
+	if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	got, err := s.LoadAll()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got["F4BPO"] != "KP30" {
+		t.Errorf("grid = %q, want the newer KP30", got["F4BPO"])
+	}
+	if len(got) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("a callsign must hold one row, got %d: %v", len(got), got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Nothing reaches the disk until a flush, and a flush with nothing pending is
+// not an error — that is most minutes on a quiet band.
+func TestBatching(t *testing.T) {
+	s, _ := open(t)
+	defer s.Close()
+
+	for _, c := range []string{"A1AA", "B2BB", "C3CC"} {
+		s.Put(c, "JN36", SourceDecode)
+	}
+	if n := s.Pending(); n != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("pending = %d, want 3 queued and unwritten", n)
+	}
+	if got, _ := s.LoadAll(); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("wrote before the flush: %v", got)
+	}
+	if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if n := s.Pending(); n != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("pending = %d after a flush, want 0", n)
+	}
+	if got, _ := s.LoadAll(); len(got) != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("flush wrote %d rows, want 3", len(got))
+	}
+	if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("empty flush must be a no-op, got %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Age is what bounds a store that would otherwise only grow. A callsign not
+// heard in two years is likely reassigned, and carrying its previous holder's
+// square is the one way this cache can be actively wrong rather than empty.
+func TestPruneOnOpen(t *testing.T) {
+	s, path := open(t)
+	s.Put("FRESH", "JN36", SourceDecode)
+	s.Put("STALE", "IO91", SourceDecode)
+	if err := s.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Backdate one row past the retention window.
+	old := time.Now().Add(-Retention - 24*time.Hour).Unix()
+	if _, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE grids SET updated_at = ? WHERE call = 'STALE'`, old); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s.Close()
+
+	again, err := Open(path, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer again.Close()
+	got, _ := again.LoadAll()
+	if _, ok := got["STALE"]; ok {
+		t.Error("an entry past the retention window survived — the store is unbounded")
+	}
+	if got["FRESH"] != "JN36" {
+		t.Error("pruning took a live entry with it")
+	}
+}
+
+// Close has to write what the last minute learnt: a restart is exactly when the
+// cache is worth the most, so losing it to a clean shutdown would be a poor
+// trade.
+func TestCloseFlushes(t *testing.T) {
+	s, path := open(t)
+	s.Put("LATE", "JN36", SourceDecode)
+	if err := s.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("close: %v", err)
+	}
+	again, err := Open(path, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer again.Close()
+	got, _ := again.LoadAll()
+	if got["LATE"] != "JN36" {
+		t.Error("what was pending at shutdown was dropped")
+	}
+}

internal/lookup/hamqth.go

@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ func (h *HamQTH) fetch(ctx context.Context, sessionID, callsign string) (Result,
 	if err != nil {
 		return Result{}, err
 	}
+	return parseHamQTHSearch(body)
+}
+
+// parseHamQTHSearch turns one answer into a Result. Split out from the request
+// so the field mapping can be checked against a captured payload — which is how
+// the missing full name and picture were found.
+func parseHamQTHSearch(body []byte) (Result, error) {
 	var resp hamqthRoot
 	if err := xml.Unmarshal(body, &resp); err != nil {
 		return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("hamqth: parse callsign: %w", err)
@@ -112,11 +119,20 @@ func (h *HamQTH) fetch(ctx context.Context, sessionID, callsign string) (Result,
 	if s.Callsign == "" {
 		return Result{}, ErrNotFound
 	}
+	// <nick> is the name the operator goes BY on the air, which is what belongs
+	// in a log — "Igor", not "Igor Vladimirovich Getman". adr_name is the postal
+	// name and is used only when there is nothing else, so a record carrying
+	// neither nick nor name no longer resolves to blank.
+	name := strings.TrimSpace(s.Nick + " " + s.LastName)
+	if name == "" {
+		name = strings.TrimSpace(s.AdrName)
+	}
 	r := Result{
 		Callsign:  strings.ToUpper(s.Callsign),
-		Name:      strings.TrimSpace(s.Nick + " " + s.LastName),
+		Name:      name,
 		QTH:       firstNonEmpty(s.QTH, s.AdrCity),
 		Address:   s.AdrStreet1,
+		Zip:       s.AdrZip,
 		State:     strings.ToUpper(s.USState),
 		County:    s.USCounty,
 		Country:   firstNonEmpty(s.AdrCountry, s.Country),
@@ -124,6 +140,8 @@ func (h *HamQTH) fetch(ctx context.Context, sessionID, callsign string) (Result,
 		Continent: strings.ToUpper(s.Continent),
 		Email:     s.Email,
 		QSLVia:    s.QSLVia,
+		Web:       s.Web,
+		ImageURL:  s.Picture,
 	}
 	r.Lat, _ = strconv.ParseFloat(s.Latitude, 64)
 	r.Lon, _ = strconv.ParseFloat(s.Longitude, 64)
@@ -182,4 +200,14 @@ type hamqthSearch struct {
 	Continent  string `xml:"continent"`
 	Email      string `xml:"email"`
 	QSLVia     string `xml:"qsl_via"`
+	// AdrName is the full postal name. Many records carry it and no <name> at
+	// all, so building the name from <nick> + <name> silently kept the first
+	// name and dropped the rest.
+	AdrName string `xml:"adr_name"`
+	AdrZip  string `xml:"adr_zip"`
+	// Picture is HamQTH's profile photo. Result.ImageURL was documented as "QRZ
+	// only" because this element was never read — QRZ calls the same thing
+	// <image>.
+	Picture string `xml:"picture"`
+	Web     string `xml:"web"`
 }

internal/lookup/hamqth_fields_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package lookup
+
+import (
+	"encoding/xml"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// A real HamQTH answer, captured from the live API.
+//
+// Two things it settles. The email IS returned and must reach the QSO. And the
+// element names are not the ones a reading of the documentation suggests:
+// there is no <name> here at all, the full name is <adr_name>, and the picture
+// is <picture> where QRZ calls it <image>. The stray <div> is an advert the
+// server injects into its own XML; the parser has to shrug it off.
+const hamqthEU1EU = `<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<HamQTH xmlns="https://www.hamqth.com" version="2.8">
+<div id="in-page-channel-node-id" data-channel-name="in_page_channel_Sux7_K"/>
+<search>
+<callsign>eu1eu</callsign>
+<nick>Igor</nick>
+<qth>Minsk-5</qth>
+<country>Belarus</country>
+<adif>27</adif>
+<itu>29</itu>
+<cq>16</cq>
+<grid>KO33SV</grid>
+<adr_name>Igor Vladimirovich Getman</adr_name>
+<adr_street1>A/ya 143</adr_street1>
+<adr_city>Minsk-5</adr_city>
+<adr_zip>220005</adr_zip>
+<adr_country>Belarus</adr_country>
+<adr_adif>27</adr_adif>
+<district>WAARB-LE</district>
+<lotw>?</lotw>
+<qsldirect>?</qsldirect>
+<qsl>?</qsl>
+<eqsl>Y</eqsl>
+<email>eu1eu@mail.ru</email>
+<latitude>53.88999938964844</latitude>
+<longitude>27.59000015258789</longitude>
+<continent>EU</continent>
+<utc_offset>-2</utc_offset>
+<picture>https://www.hamqth.com/images/default/ts-930_qith_old_radios.jpg</picture>
+</search>
+</HamQTH>`
+
+func TestHamQTHParsesEveryUsefulField(t *testing.T) {
+	var root hamqthRoot
+	if err := xml.Unmarshal([]byte(hamqthEU1EU), &root); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
+	}
+	s := root.Search
+
+	for _, c := range []struct{ name, got, want string }{
+		{"callsign", s.Callsign, "eu1eu"},
+		{"email", s.Email, "[email protected]"},
+		{"grid", s.Grid, "KO33SV"},
+		{"qth", s.QTH, "Minsk-5"},
+		{"street", s.AdrStreet1, "A/ya 143"},
+		{"city", s.AdrCity, "Minsk-5"},
+		{"country", s.AdrCountry, "Belarus"},
+		{"continent", s.Continent, "EU"},
+		{"dxcc", s.DXCC, "27"},
+		{"cq", s.CQ, "16"},
+		{"itu", s.ITU, "29"},
+	} {
+		if c.got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %q, want %q", c.name, c.got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The fields the parser was blind to. Each is data OpsLog has somewhere to put.
+func TestHamQTHParsesTheFieldsThatWereMissing(t *testing.T) {
+	var root hamqthRoot
+	if err := xml.Unmarshal([]byte(hamqthEU1EU), &root); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
+	}
+	s := root.Search
+
+	// The postal name, the fallback when a record carries no nick and no name.
+	if s.AdrName != "Igor Vladimirovich Getman" {
+		t.Errorf("adr_name = %q", s.AdrName)
+	}
+	if s.LastName != "" {
+		t.Errorf("this record has no <name>; got %q", s.LastName)
+	}
+	// The profile picture. Result.ImageURL existed and said "QRZ only" — HamQTH
+	// sends one too, under a different element name.
+	if s.Picture == "" {
+		t.Error("picture not parsed")
+	}
+	if s.AdrZip != "220005" {
+		t.Errorf("adr_zip = %q", s.AdrZip)
+	}
+}
+
+// End to end: what the provider hands back must carry the email, the full name
+// and the picture.
+func TestHamQTHResultCarriesTheLot(t *testing.T) {
+	r, err := parseHamQTHSearch([]byte(hamqthEU1EU))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
+	}
+	if r.Email != "[email protected]" {
+		t.Errorf("Email = %q — this is what was reported missing", r.Email)
+	}
+	// The nick, not the postal name: a log wants the name the operator goes by
+	// on the air. adr_name is only the fallback when there is nothing else.
+	if r.Name != "Igor" {
+		t.Errorf("Name = %q, want the on-air nick", r.Name)
+	}
+	if r.ImageURL == "" {
+		t.Error("ImageURL empty — HamQTH sent a picture")
+	}
+	if r.Grid != "KO33SV" {
+		t.Errorf("Grid = %q", r.Grid)
+	}
+	if r.Lat < 53.8 || r.Lat > 53.9 {
+		t.Errorf("Lat = %v", r.Lat)
+	}
+	if r.DXCC != 27 || r.CQZ != 16 || r.ITUZ != 29 {
+		t.Errorf("dxcc/cq/itu = %d/%d/%d", r.DXCC, r.CQZ, r.ITUZ)
+	}
+	if r.Address != "A/ya 143" {
+		t.Errorf("Address = %q", r.Address)
+	}
+}

internal/lookup/lookup.go

@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@ type Result struct {
 	Continent string    `json:"cont,omitempty"`
 	Email     string    `json:"email,omitempty"`
 	QSLVia    string    `json:"qsl_via,omitempty"`
-	ImageURL  string    `json:"image_url,omitempty"` // profile picture URL (QRZ only for now)
+	// Web is the operator's own site. The QSO table has had a `web` column all
+	// along and nothing ever filled it, because no provider mapping read the
+	// field.
+	Web string `json:"web,omitempty"`
+	// Zip is the postal code. HamQTH and QRZ both send one.
+	Zip      string `json:"zip,omitempty"`
+	ImageURL string `json:"image_url,omitempty"` // profile picture URL
 	Source    string    `json:"source"`              // "qrz", "hamqth", or "cache"
 	FetchedAt time.Time `json:"fetched_at"`
 }
@@ -446,12 +452,13 @@ func (c *Cache) Get(ctx context.Context, callsign string) (Result, bool) {
 	row := c.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `
         SELECT callsign, name, qth, address, state, cnty, country, grid,
                lat, lon, dxcc, cqz, ituz, cont, email, qsl_via, image_url,
-               source, fetched_at
+               web, zip, source, fetched_at
         FROM callsign_cache WHERE callsign = ?`, callsign)
 	var (
 		r                                         Result
 		name, qth, addr, state, cnty              sql.NullString
 		country, grid, cont, email, qslVia, image sql.NullString
+		web, zip                                  sql.NullString
 		src                                       string
 		dxcc, cqz, ituz                           sql.NullInt64
 		lat, lon                                  sql.NullFloat64
@@ -459,7 +466,7 @@ func (c *Cache) Get(ctx context.Context, callsign string) (Result, bool) {
 	)
 	if err := row.Scan(&r.Callsign, &name, &qth, &addr, &state, &cnty,
 		&country, &grid, &lat, &lon,
-		&dxcc, &cqz, &ituz, &cont, &email, &qslVia, &image,
+		&dxcc, &cqz, &ituz, &cont, &email, &qslVia, &image, &web, &zip,
 		&src, &fetched); err != nil {
 		return Result{}, false
 	}
@@ -481,6 +488,8 @@ func (c *Cache) Get(ctx context.Context, callsign string) (Result, bool) {
 	r.Lon = lon.Float64
 	r.Continent = cont.String
 	r.Email = email.String
+	r.Web = web.String
+	r.Zip = zip.String
 	r.QSLVia = qslVia.String
 	r.ImageURL = image.String
 	r.DXCC = int(dxcc.Int64)
@@ -497,7 +506,7 @@ func (c *Cache) Put(ctx context.Context, r Result) error {
 	updateCols := []string{
 		"name", "qth", "address", "state", "cnty",
 		"country", "grid", "lat", "lon",
-		"dxcc", "cqz", "ituz", "cont", "email", "qsl_via", "image_url",
+		"dxcc", "cqz", "ituz", "cont", "email", "qsl_via", "image_url", "web", "zip",
 		"source", "fetched_at",
 	}
 	// The lookup cache always lives in the local SQLite database, so SQLite
@@ -510,8 +519,8 @@ func (c *Cache) Put(ctx context.Context, r Result) error {
         INSERT INTO callsign_cache(callsign, name, qth, address, state, cnty,
                                    country, grid, lat, lon,
                                    dxcc, cqz, ituz, cont, email, qsl_via, image_url,
-                                   source, fetched_at)
-        VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?, ?,?,?,?, ?,?,?,?,?,?,?, ?,?)
+                                   web, zip, source, fetched_at)
+        VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?, ?,?,?,?, ?,?,?,?,?,?,?, ?,?, ?,?)
         ON CONFLICT(callsign) DO UPDATE SET ` + strings.Join(sets, ", ")
 	_, err := c.db.ExecContext(ctx, q,
 		r.Callsign, nullable(r.Name), nullable(r.QTH), nullable(r.Address),
@@ -520,7 +529,7 @@ func (c *Cache) Put(ctx context.Context, r Result) error {
 		nullableFloat(r.Lat), nullableFloat(r.Lon),
 		nullableInt(r.DXCC), nullableInt(r.CQZ), nullableInt(r.ITUZ),
 		nullable(r.Continent), nullable(r.Email), nullable(r.QSLVia),
-		nullable(r.ImageURL),
+		nullable(r.ImageURL), nullable(r.Web), nullable(r.Zip),
 		r.Source, db.NowISO(),
 	)
 	return err

internal/pskr/pskr.go

@@ -81,7 +81,16 @@ type Config struct {
 	// OnSpot receives every accepted decode. Called from the MQTT goroutine, so
 	// it must not block: the broker's buffer is what pays for it if it does.
 	OnSpot func(Spot)
-	Logf   func(string, ...any)
+	// OnGrid receives the transmitter of EVERY message, before any geographic
+	// filtering, for the callsign-to-locator store. Same goroutine as OnSpot and
+	// the same rule: do not block.
+	OnGrid func(call, grid string)
+	// RxGrids filters at the BROKER: only reports collected by a receiver in one
+	// of these squares are sent at all. Empty keeps the old behaviour, which was
+	// to receive the world and discard it here — measured at 83 messages a second
+	// for the four opening bands, of which about one in a hundred survived.
+	RxGrids []string
+	Logf    func(string, ...any)
 }
 
 // Watcher owns the MQTT connection and its subscriptions.
@@ -115,6 +124,32 @@ func New(cfg Config) *Watcher {
 	return &Watcher{cfg: cfg}
 }
 
+// topics builds the subscription list.
+//
+// The v2 topic is
+//
+//	pskr/filter/v2/<band>/<mode>/<tx call>/<rx call>/<tx grid>/<rx grid>/<tx dxcc>/<rx dxcc>
+//
+// so the receiver's square is a level the broker can filter on, and a band of
+// "+" means every band. Filtering by RECEIVER square rather than by receiver
+// DXCC is deliberate: measured on 20 m, one country ranged from 1.2 messages a
+// second (OH) to 72.5 (K), because a DXCC can be a continent. By square the
+// same measurement is 0.2 to 1.2 — the load follows distance, which is what the
+// feed is actually about, and it is the same for every operator.
+func (w *Watcher) topics() []string {
+	out := []string{}
+	for _, b := range w.cfg.Bands {
+		if len(w.cfg.RxGrids) == 0 {
+			out = append(out, "pskr/filter/v2/"+b+"/#")
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, g := range w.cfg.RxGrids {
+			out = append(out, "pskr/filter/v2/"+b+"/+/+/+/+/"+strings.ToUpper(g)+"/+/+")
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // Start connects and subscribes. Safe to call when already running.
 func (w *Watcher) Start() error {
 	w.mu.Lock()
@@ -143,10 +178,7 @@ func (w *Watcher) Start() error {
 
 	opts.OnConnect = func(c mqtt.Client) {
 		w.cfg.Logf("pskr: connected to %s", w.cfg.Broker)
-		for _, b := range w.cfg.Bands {
-			// Every mode, every pair of stations, on this band. That firehose IS
-			// the point: the detector's job is to find the shape in it.
-			topic := "pskr/filter/v2/" + b + "/#"
+		for _, topic := range w.topics() {
 			if tok := c.Subscribe(topic, 0, w.handle); tok.Wait() && tok.Error() != nil {
 				w.cfg.Logf("pskr: subscribe %s failed: %v", topic, tok.Error())
 				continue
@@ -206,6 +238,13 @@ func (w *Watcher) handle(_ mqtt.Client, m mqtt.Message) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// The locator store takes every transmitter, before any of the geography
+	// below. What it wants is "which square is this callsign in", and that is
+	// true whoever happened to hear the report.
+	if w.cfg.OnGrid != nil {
+		w.cfg.OnGrid(call, grid[:4])
+	}
+
 	// THE RECEIVER HAS TO BE NEAR THE OPERATOR. This is the whole difference
 	// between a useful feed and a world map.
 	//

internal/pskr/topics_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package pskr
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The receiver square is a level the BROKER can filter on, which is the whole
+// point: measured on the live feed, the four opening bands unfiltered are 83
+// messages a second of which about one in a hundred survives the NearKm test.
+// One ring of squares is under two a second, and the same for every operator —
+// where filtering by DXCC ranged from 1.2 (OH) to 72.5 (K) on one band.
+func TestTopicsFilterOnTheReceiverSquare(t *testing.T) {
+	w := New(Config{Bands: []string{"6m"}, RxGrids: []string{"jn36", "JN37"}})
+	got := w.topics()
+	if len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("want one subscription per band × square, got %v", got)
+	}
+	// Level order: band/mode/txcall/rxcall/txgrid/RXGRID/txdxcc/rxdxcc
+	want := "pskr/filter/v2/6m/+/+/+/+/JN36/+/+"
+	if got[0] != want {
+		t.Errorf("topic = %q, want %q", got[0], want)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(got[1], "/JN37/") {
+		t.Errorf("square not upper-cased into the topic: %q", got[1])
+	}
+}
+
+// With no squares the old behaviour stands: receive the band and decide here.
+func TestTopicsWithoutSquares(t *testing.T) {
+	w := New(Config{Bands: []string{"10m", "2m"}})
+	got := w.topics()
+	if len(got) != 2 || got[0] != "pskr/filter/v2/10m/#" {
+		t.Errorf("unfiltered topics = %v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Grid chasing wants every band. "+" is the MQTT single-level wildcard, so one
+// subscription per square covers the lot instead of one per band per square.
+func TestTopicsAllBands(t *testing.T) {
+	w := New(Config{Bands: []string{"+"}, RxGrids: []string{"JN36"}})
+	got := w.topics()
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "pskr/filter/v2/+/+/+/+/+/JN36/+/+" {
+		t.Errorf("all-band topic = %v", got)
+	}
+}

internal/qso/orderedids_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package qso
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	_ "modernc.org/sqlite"
+)
+
+// OrderedIDs against a real SQLite file, with qso_date stored the way the repo
+// actually writes it.
+//
+// The first version scanned that column straight into a time.Time. It compiles,
+// it reads correctly, and it fails at run time — the column holds a formatted
+// STRING. The error was swallowed into "the column will be empty", which is
+// exactly what shipped: a column that was always blank.
+func TestOrderedIDsAgainstRealSQLite(t *testing.T) {
+	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", "file:"+filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "t.db"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { conn.Close() })
+	if _, err := conn.Exec(`CREATE TABLE qso (
+		id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+		callsign TEXT NOT NULL,
+		qso_date TEXT NOT NULL
+	)`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	// Inserted NEWEST first, so the ids run opposite to the dates — what an
+	// imported ADIF produces, and the whole reason the id is not the number.
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		call string
+		at   time.Time
+	}{
+		{"NEWEST", time.Date(2026, 8, 13, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)},
+		{"MIDDLE", time.Date(2020, 1, 1, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)},
+		{"OLDEST", time.Date(1999, 5, 5, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)},
+	} {
+		if _, err := conn.Exec(`INSERT INTO qso (callsign, qso_date) VALUES (?, ?)`,
+			row.call, row.at.UTC().Format(isoMillis)); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	ids, newest, err := NewRepo(conn).OrderedIDs(context.Background())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("OrderedIDs: %v — this is the failure that emptied the column", err)
+	}
+	if len(ids) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d ids, want 3", len(ids))
+	}
+	// Rows 1,2,3 were inserted newest→oldest, so chronological order is 3,2,1.
+	if ids[0] != 3 || ids[1] != 2 || ids[2] != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("order = %v, want the oldest contact first (3,2,1)", ids)
+	}
+	if newest.Year() != 2026 {
+		t.Errorf("newest = %v, want the 2026 contact", newest)
+	}
+}

internal/qso/qso.go

@@ -47,7 +47,15 @@ func MergeNonZero(dst *QSO, src QSO) {
 // import/export. Pointers are used to distinguish "absent" from "zero".
 // Anything in ADIF that is not a promoted column lands in Extras.
 type QSO struct {
-	ID         int64     `json:"id"`
+	ID int64 `json:"id"`
+	// Number is the contact's position in the log, oldest = 1.
+	//
+	// NOT a column and NOT the ID: the primary key follows insertion order, so
+	// importing an old ADIF gives the oldest contacts the highest ids. This is a
+	// rank over qso_date, computed by the App layer and stamped on the way out —
+	// which is why it is `json:"-"`-adjacent in spirit: nothing reads or writes
+	// it in SQL.
+	Number     int       `json:"number,omitempty"`
 	Callsign   string    `json:"callsign"`
 	QSODate    time.Time `json:"qso_date"`               // start, UTC
 	QSODateOff time.Time `json:"qso_date_off,omitempty"` // end, UTC
@@ -3170,3 +3178,39 @@ func (r *Repo) WorkedGridKeys(ctx context.Context, normMode func(string) string)
 	}
 	return out, rows.Err()
 }
+
+// OrderedIDs returns every QSO id in chronological order, oldest first.
+//
+// The mirror of ListFiltered's "qso_date DESC, id DESC", so the tie-break is the
+// same one the grid displays and a contact cannot change number depending on
+// which way it is read.
+//
+// One query, ids only: the caller turns it into a rank once and keeps it in
+// memory. Asking the database for a row's rank per row would be a correlated
+// count over the whole log for each of thirty thousand rows.
+func (r *Repo) OrderedIDs(ctx context.Context) ([]int64, time.Time, error) {
+	rows, err := r.db.QueryContext(ctx, `SELECT id, qso_date FROM qso ORDER BY qso_date ASC, id ASC`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, time.Time{}, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	out := make([]int64, 0, 4096)
+	// qso_date is stored as a formatted STRING, not a driver date. Scanning it
+	// into a time.Time silently fails on SQLite, which is how this returned an
+	// error and left the whole column empty.
+	var lastDate string
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var id int64
+		var at string
+		if err := rows.Scan(&id, &at); err != nil {
+			return nil, time.Time{}, err
+		}
+		out = append(out, id)
+		lastDate = at // ascending, so the last row read is the newest
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, time.Time{}, err
+	}
+	// Parsed once, for the newest row only — the ordering came from SQL.
+	return out, parseTimeLoose(lastDate), nil
+}

motor_bandfreq_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package main
+
+import "testing"
+
+// A per-band tune frequency goes straight to the antenna as a command, so a
+// value that is not actually in that band has to be refused rather than obeyed.
+// One wrong digit sends the elements travelling to a length that is wrong for
+// the band the operator is on — and on a SteppIR that journey inhibits transmit
+// the whole way.
+func TestNormMotorBandFreqsRefusesOutOfBand(t *testing.T) {
+	in := map[string]int{
+		"20m":   14050,    // fine, CW end
+		"40m":   7005,     // fine
+		"6m":    50313,    // fine, FT8
+		"15m":   1450,     // a digit lost — lands in the broadcast band
+		"10m":   28400000, // Hz typed where kHz was asked
+		"17m":   14100,    // right number, wrong band
+		"30m":   0,        // not set
+		"80m":   3750,     // not a band this antenna covers at all
+		"bogus": 14100,    // not a band
+	}
+	got := normMotorBandFreqs(in)
+	want := map[string]int{"40m": 7005, "20m": 14050, "6m": 50313}
+	if len(got) != len(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("kept %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+	for k, v := range want {
+		if got[k] != v {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %d, want %d", k, got[k], v)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The stored form round-trips, in canonical band order rather than map order so
+// the settings row does not churn between saves.
+func TestMotorBandFreqsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	m := map[string]int{"20m": 14050, "40m": 7005, "6m": 50313}
+	enc := encodeMotorBandFreqs(m)
+	if enc != "40m=7005,20m=14050,6m=50313" {
+		t.Errorf("encoded %q — want canonical low→high order", enc)
+	}
+	back := decodeMotorBandFreqs(enc)
+	for k, v := range m {
+		if back[k] != v {
+			t.Errorf("round trip lost %s: %d → %d", k, v, back[k])
+		}
+	}
+	// Garbage in one entry must cost only that entry.
+	part := decodeMotorBandFreqs("40m=7005,20m=oops,6m=50313")
+	if part["40m"] != 7005 || part["6m"] != 50313 {
+		t.Errorf("one bad entry took the others down: %v", part)
+	}
+	if _, ok := part["20m"]; ok {
+		t.Errorf("kept an unparseable entry: %v", part)
+	}
+}
+
+// An unset band falls back to its default, which is what makes the Settings box
+// safe to leave empty.
+func TestMotorTuneKHzForBandFallsBack(t *testing.T) {
+	m := map[string]int{"20m": 14050}
+	if got := motorTuneKHzForBand(m, "20m"); got != 14050 {
+		t.Errorf("chosen frequency ignored: %d", got)
+	}
+	if got := motorTuneKHzForBand(m, "15m"); got != 21150 {
+		t.Errorf("15m = %d, want the 21150 default", got)
+	}
+	if got := motorTuneKHzForBand(m, "80m"); got != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("80m = %d, want 0 — not a motor band", got)
+	}
+	// Every default must itself be in its band, or the fallback ships the very
+	// fault normMotorBandFreqs exists to catch.
+	for _, b := range motorBands {
+		if got := bandForHz(int64(b.defKHz) * 1000); got != b.name {
+			t.Errorf("default %d kHz for %s reads as %q", b.defKHz, b.name, got)
+		}
+	}
+}

motor_trackmode_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package main
+
+import "testing"
+
+// The tracking mode decides how often a motorized antenna's elements run, so a
+// value that fails to parse must not silently become the most aggressive
+// setting. Anything unrecognised — including the empty string every config
+// written before this option existed contains — has to land on the threshold
+// mode, which is exactly what those configs already did.
+func TestNormMotorTrackMode(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ in, want string }{
+		{"always", motorTrackAlways},
+		{"ALWAYS", motorTrackAlways},
+		{"  band  ", motorTrackBand},
+		{"step", motorTrackStep},
+		{"", motorTrackStep},          // never configured — behaves as before
+		{"everytime", motorTrackStep}, // near-miss, not "always"
+		{"per-band", motorTrackStep},  // near-miss, not "band"
+		{"25", motorTrackStep},        // a step value fed in by mistake
+	} {
+		if got := normMotorTrackMode(tc.in); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("normMotorTrackMode(%q) = %q, want %q", tc.in, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Band mode compares the band the rig is on against the band the antenna was
+// last commanded for. That comparison is bandForHz, and the property it has to
+// have is that two frequencies far apart within one band agree while two
+// frequencies close together across a band edge do not — otherwise the antenna
+// either never moves or moves on every QSY.
+func TestBandForHzDrivesBandTracking(t *testing.T) {
+	same := [][2]int64{
+		{14000000, 14350000}, // both ends of 20 m — one band, no move
+		{7000000, 7200000},   // 40 m
+		{50000000, 52000000}, // 6 m, a wide one
+	}
+	for _, p := range same {
+		if a, b := bandForHz(p[0]), bandForHz(p[1]); a != b || a == "" {
+			t.Errorf("%.3f MHz is %q but %.3f MHz is %q — band mode would re-tune inside one band",
+				float64(p[0])/1e6, a, float64(p[1])/1e6, b)
+		}
+	}
+	// A small QSY that crosses from 30 m into 20 m has to read as a band change.
+	if a, b := bandForHz(10150000), bandForHz(14000000); a == b {
+		t.Errorf("30 m and 20 m both read %q — band mode would never re-tune between them", a)
+	}
+}

qso_number_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/qso"
+)
+
+func at(s string) time.Time {
+	t, err := time.Parse("2006-01-02 15:04", s)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return t
+}
+
+// The number is the contact's rank in the WHOLE log, not its position in what
+// the grid happens to be showing. Ranking inside the result would renumber
+// every contact the moment a filter is applied, and QSO #1 would change
+// identity as the operator typed.
+func TestQSONumberIsGlobalNotPerPage(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	// The log, oldest first: ids are deliberately NOT in date order, which is
+	// exactly what an imported ADIF produces.
+	a.qsoNumbers = map[int64]int{
+		770: 1, // oldest, imported last so it has the highest id
+		101: 2,
+		102: 3,
+		103: 4,
+	}
+
+	// A filtered page holding only two of them, newest first as the grid asks.
+	page := []qso.QSO{{ID: 103}, {ID: 770}}
+	a.stampQSONumbers(page)
+
+	if page[0].Number != 4 {
+		t.Errorf("id 103 numbered %d, want 4", page[0].Number)
+	}
+	if page[1].Number != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("id 770 numbered %d, want 1 — the oldest contact, whatever its id", page[1].Number)
+	}
+}
+
+// A contact logged now is the newest, so it takes the next number without
+// rereading the log — a full scan per QSO would be felt in a contest run.
+func TestNewQSOTakesTheNextNumber(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	a.qsoNumbers = map[int64]int{1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3}
+	a.qsoNumMax = at("2026-08-13 10:00")
+
+	a.noteQSONumbered(9, at("2026-08-13 11:00"))
+	if got := a.qsoNumbers[9]; got != 4 {
+		t.Errorf("new QSO numbered %d, want 4", got)
+	}
+	if !a.qsoNumMax.Equal(at("2026-08-13 11:00")) {
+		t.Error("the newest date was not carried forward")
+	}
+}
+
+// A contact entered with an OLDER date belongs in the middle of the order.
+// Appending it would number it last, which is wrong — so the map is dropped and
+// rebuilt correctly instead.
+func TestBackdatedQSOForcesARebuild(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	a.qsoNumbers = map[int64]int{1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3}
+	a.qsoNumMax = at("2026-08-13 10:00")
+
+	a.noteQSONumbered(9, at("2020-01-01 09:00"))
+	if a.qsoNumbers != nil {
+		t.Errorf("a back-dated QSO was appended as the newest: %v", a.qsoNumbers)
+	}
+}
+
+// Nothing built yet: the lazy build will see the new contact anyway, so this
+// must not create a one-entry map that then numbers the whole log wrongly.
+func TestNoteBeforeAnyBuildDoesNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{}
+	a.noteQSONumbered(9, at("2026-08-13 11:00"))
+	if a.qsoNumbers != nil {
+		t.Errorf("built a map from a single contact: %v", a.qsoNumbers)
+	}
+}
+
+// With no index available the column is simply empty — never wrong.
+func TestStampWithoutIndexLeavesZero(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &App{} // no qso repo, so the index cannot be built
+	page := []qso.QSO{{ID: 1}, {ID: 2}}
+	a.stampQSONumbers(page)
+	for _, q := range page {
+		if q.Number != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("invented a number without an index: %d", q.Number)
+		}
+	}
+}

telemetry.go

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	// appVersion is stamped on every heartbeat (and could feed the About box).
-	appVersion = "0.24.6"
+	appVersion = "0.24.8"
 
 	// posthogHost is the PostHog ingestion endpoint. EU cloud by default; change
 	// to https://us.i.posthog.com for a US project.